I heard this on NPR this morning coming to work. The RATS want us to only fight al-Qaida (apparently not the Sunni or Shia insurgents). We are supposed to do that Murtha style by “redeploying” to Kuwait or the Kurdish region, or with a reduced number of troops! However, as the surge has shown, more troops are better, were are able to go into areas previously sanctuaries for terrorists, and the locals are helping our troops to ferret out al-Qaida. They want a stop to roadside and suicide bombs. How are we to do this from Kuwait?
It seems that the biggest mistake Bush made was adopting Rummy’s concept of a small footprint, based on the Afghan model that the people would hail us as liberators. Redeployment is another name for surrender, not a change in strategy!
Pelosi: "The jihadists (are) in Iraq. But that doesn't mean we stay there. They'll stay there as long as we're there."
Battered-Left Syndrome by Ted Lapkin
The antiwar Left is severely afflicted by the political equivalent of battered-wife syndrome. With each new beating, the scarred and bruised victims of spousal abuse tend to excuse and rationalize the actions of their tormentors. A stubborn unwillingness to accept the proposition that their partners are violent louts plunges these woeful women into a morass of self-deception that spawns only further violence...
After each al Qaeda outrage, leftist ideologues are quick to castigate their own countrymen for a catalogue of sins, both real and imagined. With a perverse combination of self-loathing and adoration of the enemy, the radical Leftist mantra preaches that if only we were nicer, the jihadists could not fail to love us. It’s our own fault if Osama bin Laden doesn’t realize what good people we are.