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April 08, 2008
Iraq: Persian Proxie
Iraq's future if Obama becomes President.
Caroline Glick explains why the Iraq war is the central front in the clash against Iran and Syria. It is worth noting that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have staked their presidential runs on the theme that the Iraq war is wrong and they will withdraw American troops. In short, they promise to surrender—and leave Iraq a vacuum to be filled by Iran, who yearn to spread Shiite hegemony over that region of the world.
Which would, by the way, be extremely bad news for Israel.
Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf Sunni states wouldn't be thrilled either. In fact, they want to see Iran annihilated. Preferably by the Israelis.
Of course, Iran and Iraq fought a bloody 8-year war in which over a million men and Iranian boys died in World War I style trench warfare. This war continues as Iran pours arms and terrorists into Iraq in order to kill American and allied troops, destabilize the country, and to convince the American public that Iraq is a replay of the Viet Nam War.
The Democrats are the party of appeasement and defeatists. The notion of winning a war, of sticking by obligations and allies just never occurs to this party.
It matters little to Democrats that after America shamefully fled Viet Nam over 750,000 anti-Communists were murdered and a million innocents slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge Communists in Cambodia. They don't remember that Viet Nam invaded Cambodia to stop the horrific slaughter because America no longer had the will to intervene on foreign shores—even when genocide was taking place.
The Democrats have no historical memory. They have become fossilized isolationists, more concerned with so-called global warming than with confronting true evil—Islamic jihad.
The Republicans are willing to fight evil, yet they fail to explain that evil. And that failure must be corrected for it can turn fatal.
And yet, rather than make clear to Congress and to the US public that the war in Iraq is not an Iraqi war per se but a key battleground in a regional war in which Iran and Syria have combined forces on multiple fronts in a bid to defeat the US and its allies, the Bush administration obfuscates that central truth. For the past five years, key administration officials have repeated the bizarre claim that Iran and Syria share the US's interest in bringing stability to Iraq and that responsibility for ending the war rests solely on the shoulders of Iraq's government rather than on the shoulders of the foreign governments who are waging the war.
To read Caroline Glick's complete article, please click here.
Posted by Robert J. Avrech at April 8, 2008 11:11 AM
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"The Republicans are willing to fight evil, yet they fail to explain that evil. And that failure must be corrected for it can turn fatal."
This is what I have been saying for years. George Bush's inarticulate nature is a serious flaw, not just something for John Stewart to make fun of, (by the way, does anyone think he can continue making the same joke every night and get away with it? He's like a Blondie cartoon on TV).
You can be a Republican and a conservative, and still believe that President Bush's policies were generally good, but his inability to convey the reasons behind them are potentially disastrous.
I think McCain will do a better job of this. I realize the newsmedia will mute that message to a great degree, but in an election year that's harder to do... and if McCain wins, then he gets the President's bully pulpit.
Posted by: Jake at April 8, 2008 01:00 PM
Jake:
Yes, we give you credit for pointing out the weakness in the Republican message.
It's interesting, General Petraes is explaining Iraq quite articulately at this very moment, but the Democrats are determined not to hear what he's saying. They have a pre-determined narrative, a script they have settled on and the truth from this honest man matters little.
Bush is not a great communicator, this is true, but he has made highly moral choices that have never been driven by polls, unlike Clinton.
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at April 8, 2008 01:08 PM
In a great war, you need a combination of policy and communication. Sometimes during the Blitz, Churchill's speeches were all the British people had to rally their spirit. FDR used the firside chats to help motivate the American people time after time.
Right not the Republicans have a pretty good foreign policy without a good communicator. The Democrats have neither.
Posted by: Jake at April 8, 2008 03:12 PM
I have faith in the justice of our fight in Iraq...I also have faith in the IDF...dark days are ahead but the western democracies will overcome the third world totalitarian savages we face...despite obama and co.
Posted by: thud at April 8, 2008 04:17 PM
Jake:
Churchill, there was a great leader and a great speaker. Look at Great Britain now. Tragic.
As for America, how is it possible that a radical leftist like Barack Obama can be a Presidential candidate?
Something is very wrong with the Democrats.
And that so many Jews support this enabler of a Jew-hater?
Kapos never die, they're just reborn as liberals.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at April 8, 2008 04:26 PM
Thud:
I have faith in the IDF too, but I have no faith in Olmert & Co.
As for Obama, well, let's be clear, he's a creature of George Soros and the moveon.org monster Jew-haters.
The Democratic party has played the race card one too many time and now it's come back to bit the vile Clintons where it hurts. Yes, cannibals invariably devour their own.
Now this great Republic has an equal opportunity Presidential candidate.
Posted by: Robert J. Avrech at April 8, 2008 04:33 PM