We are going to blow this thing.  The demonizing Democrats who care only about trashing Bush in hopes of recapturing the White House (no matter what the national security implications); the weak, whiny, cojone-less Republicans who are deserting the Bush ship like rats (because all they care about is reelection, too); the too-little, too-late, communication-tone-deaf White House itself; and the short-attention-span, history-illiterate, instant-gratification-numbed American people are about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory in Iraq.  And that is going to set us back tremendously in World War III, which is what we're in the opening stages of, a war pitting modern Western Civilization against un-reformed, Old Testament, Medieval Islam.

At a time when we should be decapitating Iran and Syria, destroying their military and their defense infrastructure and eliminating as best we can Iran's nuclear weapons program, we are capitulating to a bunch of terrorist religious fanatics.  At a time when Iran and Syria are killing American troops and innocent Iraqis with their IEDs and saboteurs, we are reading, with a straight face, the Iran Study Group's incredibly foolish recommendation that we negotiate with those countries in an effort to achieve peace and stability in Iraq.

As I have said so many times that I now sound like a broken record, we are going to pay and pay dearly for this folly.  How many Americans will have to die in the next 9/11, and I believe in the bottom of my soul that one is much more likely now that we are folding like a pup tent in a hurricane, before we get serious and realize that this is literally a life and death struggle for all of our people?  Who will be held accountable when a blinding flash goes off in an American city and tens of thousands, if not millions of Americans are vaporized?  Will anybody be tossed in jail for betraying our nation to the crazies?

But that will just be closing the barn door after the horses have all escaped.  The damage will be done.  There will be blood on the hands of cowardly Americans of every political stripe, from the White House, through the halls of Congress, splattering both parties, all the Bush-hating leftists and the craven, rudderless Republicans, and onto the feckless American people.  Shame on you all!

The wolf is at our door and all we can do is sing "Kumbaya."

Contributed by Shane Briscoe on January 17, 2007 at 06:03 PM in Shane Briscoe | Permalink

Comments

Posted by: ponsdorf

We were saying similar stuff at nearly the same time.

Well said!

Posted by: ponsdorf | Jan 18, 2007 2:24:56 PM

Posted by: John

I can only echo Zero. I've never seen the real issues stated more clearly and succinctly. But I can't help wondering if the precious remant who get it are not just pissing into the wind when the WH & Condi are leading the Kumbaya chorus.

Posted by: John | Jan 18, 2007 4:20:08 PM