[Ragtime Cowgirl]

"A Second-Term Retreat?"

 

Conclusion: No.

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...But in the 24-hour-a-day TV coverage that now exists, the forces promoting defeatism have a far more potent weapon for magnifying everything that goes wrong, or only appears to have gone wrong. We who support World War IV can complain all we like about these conditions, but they are the ones under which it will have to be fought if it is to be fought at all. The bottom line is that we are up against even more defeatism in this war than there was in World War III.

Before we entered World War II, serious doubts were raised as to whether we were a match for such disciplined and fanatical enemies as Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. And in World War III, leading anti-Communists like Whittaker Chambers and James Burnham were sure that we lacked the stomach, the heart, the will, and the wit to stand effectively against the Soviet Union and its allies and sympathizers: to Chambers we were "the losing side," and to Burnham we were veritably suicidal in our weakness and folly. They turned out to be wrong because, as Charles Horner of the Hudson Institute once put it in speaking of Chambers, they, and not they alone, failed "to anticipate the resiliency of the American citizenry and its leadership."²¹ Today similar doubts and fears are once again all over the place, with even some of my fellow supporters of the Bush Doctrine murmuring that we have all grown too soft, too self-indulgent, and too self-absorbed to meet yet another daunting challenge.

Except for an occasional twinge brought on by paying too much attention to the antiwar forces, and to certain aspects of our culture, both low and high, I did not share these doubts and fears before the verdict of November 2, and they have been quite banished by what I am persuaded the American people were saying when they voted to keep George W. Bush in the White House for another four years.

Which is why I think (to say it one last time) that the amazing leader this President has amazingly turned out to be will—like the comparably amazing Harry Truman before him when he took on the Communist world—have the wind at his back as he continues the struggle against Islamist radicalism and its vicious terrorist armory: a struggle whose objective is the spread of liberty and whose success will bring greater security and greater prosperity not only to the people of this country, and not only to the people of the greater Middle East, but also to the people of Europe and beyond, in spite of the sorry fact that so many of them do not wish to know it yet."      

- Norman Podhoretz

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[Calpernia]

::dances::

Hiya Cowgirl!!!

MISSED YOU!!

::hugs!!!::

[Calpernia]

Will George W. Bush spend the next few years backing down from the ambitious strategy he outlined in the Bush Doctrine for fighting and winning World War IV?

and see post 11

[anniegetyourgun]

Thanks for that post, RC....good to 'see' you....

[MEG33]

Love ya, Cowgirl! Woo Hoo!

[My2Cents]

One of the best aspects of George W. Bush's character is that he seems to have a very accurate appraisal of his detractors, and hence (according to Times' "Person of the Year" article on Bush), he ignores the naysayers' snipings, and considers their opposition as proof that what he's doing is correct.

[broadsword]

The seventh-century savages of Islam are dead serious about this conflict. They know it's a fight to the death they've started, and they intend to win at all costs.

We had better wake up very soon and get serious about our survival.

[prairiebreeze]

Hey, hey RC! So good to see you dear, we've missed you!

I saw this link to this article over on Powerline today and printed off all 26 pages. Will read on the plane going to DC next week for the 2nd Inauguration of George W. Bush.

How sweeeeet it is!!

Prairie

[windchime]

It's SO GOOD to see you!! Missed ya.