U.S. Can't 'Redeploy' Its Way Out Of Iraq

by Mark Steyn - June 24th, 2006 - Chicago Sun-Times

You gotta hand it to these guys: "Redeployment" is ingenious. I'll bet the focus-group consultants were delirious: "surrender," "lose,","scram," "scuttle ignominiously," "head for the hills" all polled poorly, but "redeploy" surveyed well with all parts of the base, except the base in Okinawa, where they preferred "sayonara" -- that's "redeploy" in any language. The Defeaticrats have a clear message for the American people. Read da ploy: No new quagmires.

This is the most artful example of Leftspeak since they came up with "undocumented immigrant." In fact, if it catches on, I'll bet millions of fine upstanding members of the Undocumented-American community now start referring to themselves as Redeployed Mexicans.

Is there any way to honestly discuss the war against Islamofascism without accepting that the liberal left is determined that America must lose? The liberals believe, or so they claim, that all cultures are equal and that it is more important for us to maintain our values than that we lose the war. They believe that nothing is worth going to war for since a culture that believes it has the right to behead us if we don't convert to their religion is just as fine as a Christian culture.

Let's be honest. If nothing is worth going to war for, then you are ready to lose all wars, including the one we are in now. However these liberals insist you must not dare imply that someone who is advocating a policy that will cause us to lose the war is "unpatriotic". You don't even have to say the specific words. Just arguing that you think their position is stupid will get you accused of calling them "unpatriotic" and "treasonable" and that you are evil for doing so.

Steyn does a great job of presenting the argument that we have to win the war. He is much more articulate than I. However you don't have to be a rocket scientist to realize that liberals and the long list of non-liberal philosophies are simply unable to communicate with each other these days. If liberals think redeploy is not just another word for quit you will never reach them with logic.