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Tracy makes a lot of sense here:
Many Muslims, especially Arab Muslims, are happy that the Iraq Study Group seems to be declaring Iraq a failure. The Democrats ran on withdrawal from Iraq and will most likely cut back funding for Iraq in the next session. Both groups are quite happy about their temporary victories. I am concerned that these short term gains might have long term repercussions that neither group wants nor understands.
First the Muslims and the Middle East: If we admit defeat and withdraw from Iraq, we will send the world the message that Muslims and the people in the Middle East just can’t adjust to democracy.
The Islamists will be ecstatic and will continue to clamp down on the region and spread Islamo-facsism. The result of this will be more terror attacks, sooner or later in the United States of America.
Now, one of the traits of Americans that few understand is our desire to live peacefully. We really hate going to war. Many think that that makes American cowards, but nothing could be further from the truth. We also really hate being attacked and usually demand retaliation. No one should forget that we are the world’s largest military power. We the public demands an attack, our military is more that capable of delivering a massive strike.
We have expended $500 billion and thousands of lives in Iraq in an attempt to bring democracy to the region. Far from the “Shock and Awe” of the original campaign, we have gone slowly and cautiously out of respect for the Iraqi people. The people have repaid us with death for our kindness.
After the next terrorist attack on the US, we will again be faced with how to appropriately respond. This time the public will be much less concerned about the Iraqi people. They have shown that they can’t be won over to civilization and our free society with global trade can’t be hobbled by savages.
We will only have a few options and ground troops won’t be one of them. Our next response will have to have an incredibly low death toll for our military and a massively higher one for our enemies.
We entered Iraq with the naïve concept that the Iraqi people were basically good people being ruled by a very bad leader. The last 4 years have disabused the public of that notion. The MSM has done an excellent job of painting Iraqis as a massive group of American hating radicals that couldn’t wait to start killing each other as soon as we disposed Saddam. (I don’t think that this is true, but that doesn’t matter. The media has worked over time to lose this war and they are responsible for the low regard most Americans now have for Iraq and the Iraqi people).
The next answer to terrorism could very well be a nuclear response. The public will honestly question why we should risk men on a society that is incapable of accepting civilization.
- Ethnic Cleansing Of All Non Muslims Underway
The Last Crusade (h/t Michael Travis): MASSIVE WITHDRAWAL OF US TROOPS FROM IRAQ SET TO BEGINETHNIC CLEANSING OF ALL NON MUSLIMS UNDERWAY thelastcrusade.org by Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. Pre-election violence in Iraq – - including the beheadings of members...
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Be Careful What You Wish For - Appeasement And It's Consequences
Tracy makes a lot of sense here:
Many Muslims, especially Arab Muslims, are happy that the Iraq Study Group seems to be declaring Iraq a failure. The Democrats ran on withdrawal from Iraq and will most likely cut back funding for Iraq in the next session. Both groups are quite happy about their temporary victories. I am concerned that these short term gains might have long term repercussions that neither group wants nor understands.
First the Muslims and the Middle East: If we admit defeat and withdraw from Iraq, we will send the world the message that Muslims and the people in the Middle East just can’t adjust to democracy.
The Islamists will be ecstatic and will continue to clamp down on the region and spread Islamo-facsism. The result of this will be more terror attacks, sooner or later in the United States of America.
Now, one of the traits of Americans that few understand is our desire to live peacefully. We really hate going to war. Many think that that makes American cowards, but nothing could be further from the truth. We also really hate being attacked and usually demand retaliation. No one should forget that we are the world’s largest military power. We the public demands an attack, our military is more that capable of delivering a massive strike.
We have expended $500 billion and thousands of lives in Iraq in an attempt to bring democracy to the region. Far from the “Shock and Awe” of the original campaign, we have gone slowly and cautiously out of respect for the Iraqi people. The people have repaid us with death for our kindness.
After the next terrorist attack on the US, we will again be faced with how to appropriately respond. This time the public will be much less concerned about the Iraqi people. They have shown that they can’t be won over to civilization and our free society with global trade can’t be hobbled by savages.
We will only have a few options and ground troops won’t be one of them. Our next response will have to have an incredibly low death toll for our military and a massively higher one for our enemies.
We entered Iraq with the naïve concept that the Iraqi people were basically good people being ruled by a very bad leader. The last 4 years have disabused the public of that notion. The MSM has done an excellent job of painting Iraqis as a massive group of American hating radicals that couldn’t wait to start killing each other as soon as we disposed Saddam. (I don’t think that this is true, but that doesn’t matter. The media has worked over time to lose this war and they are responsible for the low regard most Americans now have for Iraq and the Iraqi people).
The next answer to terrorism could very well be a nuclear response. The public will honestly question why we should risk men on a society that is incapable of accepting civilization.
- Ethnic Cleansing Of All Non Muslims Underway
The Last Crusade (h/t Michael Travis): MASSIVE WITHDRAWAL OF US TROOPS FROM IRAQ SET TO BEGINETHNIC CLEANSING OF ALL NON MUSLIMS UNDERWAY thelastcrusade.org by Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. Pre-election violence in Iraq – - including the beheadings of members...
- Obama Can't Withdraw Troops From Iraq?
From Gateway Pundit: Iraqis Say Obama Cannot Withdraw Troops Without a 1 Year Notification & Iraqi Government Approval The Iraqi government told Obama today-- Not so fast on that cut-& running... Legally Obama cannot withdraw US troops for one...
- When It Comes To The Islamofascists, What The Hell Could We Possibly Do That Would Please Them?
Do you realize that many Muslims are actually angry with us, because we went into Kosovo and defended them? This is true. One of the prime motivators of many of the Al Qaeda fighters who ended up in Chechneya, Afghanistan, and Iraq, was that we "invaded",...
- Terrorists Welcome Isg Report
Well, who would have thought it? The Iraq Study Group advocates retreat, surrender and appeasement and the "insurgents" in Iraq think it's a great idea. Insurgents and militias in Iraq on Thursday welcomed the recommendations made in a report by the...
- Last Chance For Democracy In The Arab World
Ralph Peters has written a hard-assed essay which expresses many of my thoughts of late. I'm going to excerpt highlights here, but really you should go read the whole thing: WITH the best intentions, President Bush recently declared that it's...