Archive for July 31st, 2007
Iraq Neighbors Disagree with Democrats
Bloomberg reports today that America’s “Arab allies caution against a quick U.S. exit from Iraq.”
Major Arab allies of the U.S. cautioned today against a precipitous troop withdrawal from Iraq that could shake the region and fuel regional instability, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in Egypt.
The concerns were aired in meetings that Gates and Rice had in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and top officials from Jordan and Persian Gulf countries.
The view is that diminishing the U.S. presence in Iraq should be “done carefully and with a view toward consequences and in a way that does not leave Iraq in chaos,” Gates told reporters after the meetings.
James Taranto of Opinion Journal wants to know if any those politicians who argued against the Iraq war on the grounds that our allies, including the Arab regimes, opposed it, will back away from supporting and demanding a precipitious withdrawal now because of our allies’ views.
Unremarkably, it appears the only two factions that want U.S. Troops out of Iraq immediately are al-Qaeda and the Democratic Party. Both wish for an American defeat in Iraq.
Winning in Iraq – “A Real Big Problem”
House Majority Whip James Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, said Monday that if the progress report on Iraq due this September from General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker is generally positive, as appears of late to be the case, “that would be a real big problem for us.”
Are the Democrats so mired in their hatred for George Bush that winning the war in Iraq is a “big problem?” That their abhorrent, self-centered political ambitions and irrational loathing of Bush supersedes the vital interest of America winning the war in Iraq and radical Islamism is beyond belief and borders on sedition.
To paraphrase Mark Steyn, the Democrats who raise the white flag of surrender and believe that a failure in Iraq and the War on Terror in general will diminish George Bush and the so-called neo-cons, is to believe in the tooth fairy. The reality of the matter is that it will diminish all of us; this nation and all that we stand for.”
Like Goethe said, “Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.”
