RSSSmall Consolations
Gene Lalor | November 30, 2009
There’s some small consolation in the hackneyed truism that some things never change. A very small consolation.
On the eve of the president’s highly touted address to the nation on what he called during the campaign the “necessary” war, the Reid-ites are again crawling out of the Democratic woodwork.
By hearing the struggle in Afghanistan was “necessary,” the electorate may have foolishly assumed Obama must have meant it was an absolute requisite that we win it.
After months of conferencing and soul-searching (and weighing the political repercussions?), after months of diddling and dithering while our undermanned troops needlessly died, we should find out tomorrow whether Obama said what he meant and meant what he said.
Pre-empting the West Point speech with what has become typical Democrat sentiment, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee Rep. David Obey has already pulled a Harry Reid by announcing the anticipated troop surge is ”a fool’s errand.”
You may remember Harry, the soon-to-be-deposed Democrat Nevada senator who infamously and incorrectly denounced GWB’s Iraq surge as a failure before it began. That troop increase in 2007 proved to be the turning point in the Iraq War.
Now Obey 
has taken up the defeatist Dem line, but with a twist.
Feigning interest in winning in Afghanistan, the Wisconsin pol told CNN, “The problem is you can have the best policy in the world but if you don’t have the tools to implement it it isn’t worth a bean bag:” http://bit.ly/80Q3XA
Obey would purchase those tools by employing the tried and true Democrat technique of taxing the hell out of the “rich,” those bloodsuckers who have always been considered wicked warlocks and witches by the Left as distinguished from the leeches who rarely vote Republican.
S.C. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham’s radical idea for funding the war by cutting spending would induce strokes in Obey and other Dems.
Sniffing the spectre of success in Afghanistan–a result to be avoided at all costs by the contemporary Party of the People–Michigan’s Democrat Senator Carl Levin 
offered some unusually incisive insight on the matter.
“The key here is an Afghan surge, not an American surge,” Levin said. “We cannot, by ourselves, win (the) war,” which is very true and as it should be.
However, that insight is a subterfuge.
Levin in his misplaced role as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committe has long been one of Congress’ quintessential doves, opposing the war in Iraq, opposing Bush’s surge, opposing enhanced interrogation of terror suspects, opposing the Patriot Act.
He also flipflopped on the danger posed by Saddam Hussein and Hussein’s connections with Islamic terrorism. John Kerry-like, Levin endorsed that view before he dis-endorsed that view.
Anyone who believes his concern now is for victory in Afghanistan must also believe in the Tooth Fairy or that Barney Frank is straight.
Vermont independent senator Bernie Sanders is married so, of course, he must be straight even if he has never seen a piece of pro-gay legislation that he didn’t love. And, since he’s an “independent,” his record of voting 98% for Democrat positions is merely coincidence and doesn’t at all detract from his independence.
Bernie is also onboard the Democrat express seeking to derail victory in Afghanistan.
Says Bernie, “I’ve got a real problem about expanding this war where the rest of the world is sitting around and saying, ‘Isn’t it a nice thing that the taxpayers of the United States and the U.S. military are doing the work that the rest of the world should be doing?’ ” http://bit.ly/5lWjat
Sen. Sanders may have a hotline into every capital on the planet but if he really thinks our troops are “doing the work that the rest of the world should be doing,” he has another think coming.
While it’s evident that all of the world is under attack by Muslim fundamentalists, the “rest of the world” wasn’t attacked on September 11th, 2001 by Muhammed Atta and his merry band of sickos who were based in Taliban-al Qaeda’s Afghanistan.
With that impetus and after more than adequate warnings to the Afghani powers that were, President Bush returned the dubious compliment a month later by launching Operation Enduring Freedom, a euphemism for Don Rumsfeld’s original Shock and Awe.
Here’s a wakeup call to Obey, Levin, and Sanders: To be sure, we need our allies in this continuing struggle which promises to swallow them as well as the United States but, first and foremost, this baby is ours. For you and your fellow Democrats to toss any roadblocks in the path of an American victory in Afghanistan is not only repugnant but treasonous.
Granted Democrat dove nitwits are just doing what their negativist, defeatist genes compel them to do but perhaps they should stop and contemplate the consequences of their actions.
If the Muslim world comes to believe America is an emasculated paper tiger, a masochistic pinyata, that won’t fight and win, even that very small consolation of Democrats just being Democrats won’t mean very much.
Another small consolation is that people such as Obey, Levin, and Sanders weren’t in charge after December 7th, 1941.
Obama may yet shock and awe the American people at West Point, which would be yet another small consolation.
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