Barack Obama, who doesn’t deserve a U.S. Government paycheck, has claimed that the success of our efforts in Iraq was not due to the surge in forces there, but only to the uprising of Iraqi Sunnis against Al Qaeda.
He said the fact that it happened at the same time as the surge was just coincidental. In reality, without the surge, showing the Sunnis that America was going to win, they would still be cowering and afraid of Al Qaeda. Al Qaeda, which Obama once said wasn’t in Iraq.
They just keep retelling themselves
Most Redstaters are aware, if only via Pejman’s valiant efforts, of the dire situation in Zimbabwe, where thuggery and socialist economics have combined to make the once-strong national currency essentially worthless.
The media will eventually get around to a storm about Zimbabwe. The pleas to intervene will rise from the usual quarters, those who insist that we intervene only when we have nothing to gain. We went to Iraq for oil, they will say, so we should go to Zimbabwe, to fix our karma or something.
I urge doing nothing.
In the past few days, we’ve been treated to a redefinition of patriotism. We’ve been told that “true patriotism” is more than love for and loyalty to a nation. We’ve been told that the “true patriot” must at times disagree with his government or its leaders, and that is obviously correct. But it’s also not patriotism.
From the Academy:
Part of the reason there is any controversy at all over the Electoral College is the misconception that the People elect the President. We don't. The States elect the President, and that's the way it should be.
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It's really too much fun. Congress can't even dork things up properly.
The Democrats swept to power promising clean government, retreat in Iraq, no more wiretaps, and a chicken in every pot.And now, seven months into the Congressional term, what has this Congress delivered?
A lot has been written over the last four years about winning in Iraq, what it means, and whether it was even possible. A key ingredient identified by sages and pundits has been the willingness of the Iraqis themselves to "stand up". Some have assumed the Iraqis to be playing a waiting game, biding their time until our Left succeeds in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. I have always thought the Iraqis wanted to join the modern world as a free nation, but were unsure whether they were allowed.
But can a culture built on extended families, tribal loyalty, and submission to authority produce such a result?
Another kind of winning may provide the answer.
For the record, for Senator McCain, for President Bush, Senator Graham, and any other bill proponent who charge those opposed to the bill with being racists: my position has nothing to do with the ethnicity of the majority of illegal immigrants currently here. I'm not worried about preserving what passes for American "culture", whether that's used as a code for racial balance, or whatever it means. The world is changing, and the superficial aspects of our culture will change with it. But we must not allow an attack on the most important thing about America, the underlay for all of our rights and freedoms.
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It appears that Pennsylvania Democrat (and also Congressman) Jack Murtha's problem with the war is it's in Iraq, not in Pennsylvania.
As Mark Steyn points out, living in the shadows is not such an awful deal.
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