Will This Trusted Senator Be The Man To Kick Bush Into The Long Grass?

by Alex Massie - February 11th, 2007 - Scotland on Sunday (scotsman.com)

"No credible person can doubt that, however we might try to disguise it, a withdrawal while Iraq is still in chaos would be regarded around the world as a victory by our enemies," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the senior Republican on the House foreign relations committee. "For we will have demonstrated that we will abandon allies, that we can in fact be forced to accept defeat and its consequences, however grave they may be."

The real question that this article addresses is whether any democracy, even America, can muster the will to fight a tough war. During the civil war of this nation there were major elements in the North who opposed fighting to stay one nation. They were not willing to take any losses. They were anti-war. The real genius and greatness of Abraham Lincoln was that no matter how decent he was as a human, he could see the importance to future generations of our nation not being fragmented. He was willing to endure the short term pain for what he could see was a more important principle. How few of our elected officials and our people are that prescient today.

Right now we are faced with two major forces that will fragment our nation and undo all that Lincoln accomplished. Islamofascism and Atzlantism are both enemies of our country who plan to tear it apart.

Islamofascism will never maintain us as a single nation but will split us up over regional grievances, just as it always had. These regional grievances do not mean they cannot defeat us first. The appeasement brigade leading the democrat party proves that we can be defeated by sapping our will to fight. With the vote in the last election it is clear that a major part of our population wants it all to just go away. They do not want to consider whether islamofascism is a threat. Let's just come home and spend the money for my health care is their answer. Like a child putting his hands over his ears and humming nah nah nah nah nah . . . nothing you say will get through.

Atzlantism also continues to defy the willingness of either political party to confront the consequences of givng up a major portion of our nation to Mexico. Many here in both parties simply cover their ears and hum nah nah nah nah nah nah . . . so they do not even hear the argument that continued illegal invasion will subvert our country and tear it apart. That is the plan of those who are advocating and encouraging the invasion of illegal aliens.

Like the threat of Islamofascism, Atzlantism is simply not something many American people want to hear, so they don't hear it. They vote what they want the world to be. If it is not what they want, the consequences will be horrible.

That leads us back to my major concern. Due to the prevalence of people voting what they want, due to the prevalence of people for whom the discussion about serious issues is not even heard, we are proving what the Romans proved 2,000 years ago. Democracy cannot survive in the long run. Unless we can get the discussion back to what Ileana Ros-Lehtinen understands (see her quote above), America is doomed.

That serious discussion of the consequences must start on both the wars we are currently in. The war on Islamofascism and the war on Atzlantism. We also need to continue the battle against the socialists who have long aimed to bring America down for espousing free enterprise.

Are you helping the fights or standing on the sidelines wishing they would go away?