Rumsfeld on the War

Throughout our history, there have always been spirited debates about what our country's responsibilities are or should be — even back in the very early days of the Revolution. Indeed, there's been a lively debate in every decade of my adult life — throughout the Cold War, before. And to be sure, there is heated debate today.

Many of you may be aware that I keep a photograph on my desk under glass. It's a satellite image taken at night of the Korean peninsula. And I think they're going to put one up, if they have one. It's powerful. I often give it to foreign dignitaries when they visit my office. It's evidence of [the late editor of the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages] Bob Bartley's vision.

And as you can see, in the south, below the Demilitarized Zone, the land is bright with energy and life. In the north, that one pinprick of light is the capital — of Pyongyang in North Korea. The same people in the north and south, the same resources in the North and the South — no difference. The difference is that in the south, they have a free political system and a free economic system — and that that freedom has unleashed the power of human ingenuity to the great benefit of the South Korean people.

Good words, but Rummy has been thrown under the Bus, so he's not around to help live up to them.

n the struggle we face, perseverance — may be even more important today. This is the first war of the 21st century. It's different. And even after several years of this war, it's not well understood. It's unfamiliar to the American people and to most of the people of the world.

The Dems, and far too many of the American people are into instant gratification, not perseverance. They've *made fun" of "Stay the Course".

And *they* control Congress and Congress controls the purse strings.

If I was an Iraqi, especially one who'd cooperated with the Infidels (us!), I'd be lining up a few camels to transport my family and in the end myself, overland to Jordon and then down to the Gulf of Aquaba. I suspect many of them will end up here, just as the boat people from Vietnam did. Some of them were even joined later by their husbands and fathers after the latter had gotten out of the reeducation camps. I don't think there will be any camps this time. Just a bunch of headless corpses.

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