Posted by
jarhead on Friday, May 30, 2008 4:00:51 PM
Nancy Pelosi, in an interview her home town paper, has stipulated that the reason the ‘surge’ has succeeded in Fallujah is that the Iranians, out of their enormous good will, chose to put an end to the violence. Clearly in her mind without the gracious support of the Iranian government the situation in Fallujah would still be violent and intolerable. To put this in perspective I thought a few analogies might be in order.
A few come quickly to mind. American’s should be thanking the British every 4th of July for their independence since victory in the Revolutionary War was only achieved when the British graciously ceased hostilities. U.S. Grant is not the one to be revered for final victory in the Civil War; that honor falls to General Lee for calling Grant to Appomattox so that hostilities could be ended. WWII? We should thank the Japanese for allowing us to park our aircraft carrier in their harbor so we could sign the surrender agreement only made possible by the Japanese graciously offering to end hostilities. Really?
The Iranians have been supporting terrorism through out the world and were totally invested in seeing terror continue in Iraq. And the real reason that Fallujah is now quiet and under the control of the Iraqi armed forces is that those Iraqi forces soundly defeated the Iranians and their fellow travelers; in the words of local business folks now back in business due to the new and welcome security, the bad guys were either killed or captured-defeated by a resurgent Iraqi military ever more capable of securing and maintaining the peace.
Why is it so hard for liberals to just admit that our military can devise workable strategies, that they can execute them effectively and that positive results, in this case an Iraqi army that can stand on its own, can occur? Are they so vested in how bad America is and how terrible the military is that they cannot see and accept facts for what they are? Or are they simply so vested in their mantra of failure in Iraq that to admit even the slightest progress is intolerable despite the facts? Or is this just the liberal disease-facts be damned its all about how you feel. As in Barack responding to a Charley Gibson question on raising taxes on capitol gains and the negative repercussions of such activity from history that he was not concerned about the impact to business or revenues to the government-he was concerned about what is ‘fair’.
What’s fair is to give credit where it is really due. General Petraus has done an outstanding job, our troops have performed exceptionally well and we have lots to be proud of and hopeful for in the Iraq situation. Is that not good for America? Is that not good for the Middle East? Just what is it the Pelosi and her fellow travelers really want for America?