97 Reasons Democrats Are Weak On Defense And Can't Be Trusted To Govern In Wartime

Investor's Business Daily ^ | September 29, 2006 | Editorial

[quidnunc]

Today's Democrats are nothing like Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, who with courage and decisive action kept on top of their jobs and aggressively confronted one national defense crisis after another.

Jimmy Carter, elected during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and (1) believing Americans had an inordinate fear of communism, (2) lifted U.S. citizens' travel bans to Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia and (3) pardoned draft evaders.

President Carter (4) also stopped B-1 bomber production, (5) gave away our strategically located Panama Canal and (6) made human rights the central focus of his foreign policy.

That led Carter, a Democrat, (7) to make a monumental miscalculation and withdraw U.S. support for our long-standing Mideast military ally, the Shah of Iran. (8) Carter simply didn't like the Shah's alleged mistreatment of imprisoned Soviet spies.

The Soviets, (9) with close military ties to Iraq, a 1,500-mile border with Iran and eyes on Afghanistan, aggressively tried to encircle, infiltrate, subvert and overthrow Iran's government for its oil deposits and warm-water ports several times after Russian troops attempted to stay there at the end of WWII. These were all communist threats to Iran that Carter never understood.

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[Lurker]

IBD has had some particularly harsh editorials of late.

I like it.

L

[metmom]

That's all. What is it, a summary?

[BoBToMatoE]

Oustanding article. This is a must read.

[Nathan Zachary]

It was Carter's 'foriegn policy' which triggered Islamic fundamentalism's beginnings in Iran and establishing the fertile cresent of terrorist activity the entire region is today. Combined with Clintons bungling and ignoring of Islamic fundamentalism, and his helping them out as he did in the Balkans, Democrats have made not only this nation, but the entire world a much more dangerous place.

Electing Democrats again would be national suicide. It's going to take decades to undo the damage they have already done.

[quidnunc]

metmom wrote: That's all. What is it, a summary?

Nope, it's an excerpt.

[PGalt]

Outstanding editorial. Outstanding post. Thanks IBD and quidnunc.

[BillaryBeGone]

There is a special place in hell for Jimmah. Dante could not even begin to envision the kind of evil one man like Jimmah could bring into the world. That he managed to graduate from the Naval Academy implies he is not a stupid person. That he has, through his own efforts and actions, brought so much grief and pain into this world can only be explained by his complete and utter inability to see anything beyond his own interpretation of his "accomplishments" and "legacy." But, then again, he is a liberal. What was I thinking?

[outdriving]

While I agree with the central premise the Demorats cannot be trusted in wartime, are we indeed in wartime?

The Constitution is very explicit about the Congress being the only branch of government empowered to declare war.

Global realities have brought us extra-congressional forms of military action to support uber-national entities like the U.N. or "police actions" like grabbing Noriega from Panama.

As a Constitutional conservative, I question if we are at war, if Congress has not declared it. We are certainly shooting at people that are shooting at us. But we are not at war.

If we are, we have suffered a coup in this country.

[Jewels1091]

just wow...

[Norman Arbuthnot]

Only 97?? This list could have been a lot longer.

[Lucas McCain]

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
J.F.Kennedy, Jan.20,1961

If John Kennedy were somehow resurrected from the dead, he would be drummed out of the Democratic Party.

[quidnunc]

outdriving wrote: While I agree with the central premise the Demorats cannot be trusted in wartime, are we indeed in wartime? The Constitution is very explicit about the Congress being the only branch of government empowered to declare war. Global realities have brought us extra-congressional forms of military action to support uber-national entities like the U.N. or "police actions" like grabbing Noriega from Panama. As a Constitutional conservative, I question if we are at war, if Congress has not declared it. We are certainly shooting at people that are shooting at us. But we are not at war. If we are, we have suffered a coup in this country.

1. Yes, we are at war.

2. Congress did authorize war, though it did not issue a formal declaration of war a la WW II.

There is no constitutionl mandate of the form required for a declaration of war.

The only American wars accompanied by a formal declaration were:

1. The War of 1812

2. The Mexican/American War

3. The Spanish/American War

4. WW I

5. WW II

[Prophet in the wilderness]

The Democrat party of today is nothing but a extension of Communism and their effort to bring the USA down.

[Dajjal]

cutandrun bump

[lmr]

I have my reasons for sure.

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[Nathan Zachary]

We are at war. It's just not like any war you have seen before. The enemy doesn't fight from any one border or territory, they mingle among us, working from within our own institutions, even our own government. They pick us off slowly, one by one, destroy our laws, little by little, weaken our will, and corrupt our moral values, all from within, as they mingle among us.

[quidnunc]

Prophet in the wilderness wrote: The Democrat party of today is nothing but a extension of Communism and their effort to bring the USA down.

I myself would liken today's Democrats more to the Civil War Copperheads than to Communists.

As a matter of fact the parallels between the contemporary Democrats and the Copperhead Democrats are very striking.

[do the dhue]

98

Can you hear one of todays Demorats saying this:

[Bonaparte]

There's a link at bottom of the article. Click it.

[quidnunc]

This cartoon by Thomas Nast from the September 3, 1864 Harper's Weekly could, with just a few minor changes, apply to today's Democrats:

[AmeriBrit]

After reading that I don't think I'd be too far off in saying the democRATs use this as their guideline:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1272893/posts

[wildcatf4f3]

thats congresses fault....they are spineless and feel they must pander to the Leftists in the media.

[lndrvr1972]

Your reasoning is the argument I give my Dad who is a Roosevelt, Truman democrat. I try and try to keep telling him that its not the same party for the people.

[bpjam]

Why stop at 97??

[ClaireSolt]

Seems like everywhere people are busy critiquing the Democrats. someone needs to get to work and make the case for the Republicans. They have done a lot and it deserves highlighting.

[metmom]

Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. What goes on in the brain doesn't always come across the keyboard right.

What I meant was; only 97 reasons? There aren't more?

[Prophet in the wilderness]

What were the Civil War copperheads ?

[Dave Olson]

As a Constitutional conservative, I question if we are at war, if Congress has not declared it.

In 1996, Osama bin Laden declared war on the Americans who were in Saudi Arabia. In 1998, he extended that declaration of war on all Americans everywhere.

So the way I see it, this is a declared war -- it's just been declared on us is all.

[quidnunc]

Prophet in the wilderness wrote: What were the Civil War copperheads ?

There is a useful article in Wikipedia as well as in other history sites in the Internet.

[Lancer_N3502A]

That's a keeper

[outdriving]

"There is no constitutional mandate of the form required for a declaration of war."

You need to reread your copy of the Constitution.

The founding fathers recognized the fact that the Executive was only branch of government with an interest in promoting war. This is why they made this an exclusive Congressional power. In fact, Madison and Jefferson wrote at length on this issue.

It is indeed true that nuclear war reality and congressional hubris have combined to shift this war making power from the legislative to the executive branch.

But this is a gross distortion of Constitutional power and the founder's intent. And no conservative with a conscience can defend it.

And if we are at war, with whom? "The terrorists" is not a state or even an identifiable group.

The realists among us might say Islam. That this is just a continuation of 1,200 years of Jihad against the West that the West had suppressed for the last couple of hundred or so years. This being the case, why can't Bush get his head out of his a** and just say so. And get the Congress to declare war?

[Peacekeeper357]

If JFK were alive today he would be a Republican.

[Right_in_Virginia]

BTTT

[RightOnline]

"It was Carter's 'foriegn policy' which triggered Islamic fundamentalism's beginnings in Iran and establishing the fertile cresent of terrorist activity the entire region is today. Combined with Clintons bungling and ignoring of Islamic fundamentalism, and his helping them out as he did in the Balkans, Democrats have made not only this nation, but the entire world a much more dangerous place."

Superbly said.

[ml/nj]

The Democrat party of today is nothing but a extension of Communism and their effort to bring the USA down.

I work with a guy who emigrated from Poland. This week he told me about some Dimocrat who came to his door looking for his vote this fall. He told her that he didn't vote for Dimocrats because they were all like the Communists he fled from. The response of the Dimocrat Babe was to tell him that the Dimocrats were very different from the Communists.

How typical of a Dimocrat, I thought. My co-worker has experienced Communists in Poland and Dimocrats in America. It is highly unlikely that the Dimocrat Babe knows anything about what things were like in Poland, but yet she knows better than my co-worker. What arrogance!

ML/NJ

[MaineVoter2002]

I agree! We cant let them win any seats next month.

If we live in a state that's secure this 2006 with no vulnerable republican seats I recommend we ADOPT A CANDIDATE that's vulnerable in an other state.

I plan on doing is posting articles I see here at FR in other newsgroups where everybody is NOT a republican. Sometimes we forget that we are preaching to the choir and we need to go out among the "sinners" and spread the good news of conservatism. So I often combat the liberal moonbats in USENET / GOOGLE POLITICAL NEWSGROUPS

[Prophet in the wilderness]

And those who are from the New Europe i.e. Poland, they appreciate Freedom, and what the USA did for them.

[FreeKeys]

That's a keeper

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In fact, you might also want to send this one too (or even copy the whole thing): http://freedomkeys.com/demsondefense.htm

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