Excellent recap below of the ongoing effort by the Democratic Party elite to surrender in Iraq despite strong evidence that the U.S. is winning the war.
And will voters demand better answers from U.S. Reps. Joe Sestak and Patrick Murphy for their incoherent Iraq policy?
The letter to the editor from a Chester County resident was originally published in The Mercury.
Despite defeatist Democrats, U.S. is winning the war in Iraq
At what point does political dissent become treasonable? Is it when partisans in the employ of the CIA and Justice Department jeopardize national security by leaking classified information to the news media?
Is it when the talking points of Al Gore, Ted Kennedy and Dennis Kucinich become indistinguishable from those of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda's No. 2? Is it when entrepreneur Mark Cuban underwrites a film that casts the worst possible light on our troops at a time of war? Or, is it when Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, declares a war "lost" and the Surge strategy "accomplishing nothing?"
The desired effects of words and deeds like these were met: Emboldened terrorists, demoralized and condemnatory public opinion, and Democrat majorities in Congress. History unfortunately will likely show that these acts and pronouncements served only to forestall progress and increase our casualty rate.
The design for defeat concocted by all of the above came up against something unanticipated. It was Gen. David Petraeus. The blueprint for military success followed by political success is playing out just as conceived by Petraeus. Dumbfounded surge detractors now find themselves clinging to economics. It should not be lost on anyone however that the last time a financial rug was pulled from beneath a fledgling regime, an estimated two million were annihilated in Vietnam and Cambodia.
It would be instructive to revisit comments made by Surge detractors, local and national, who will figure prominently in this fall's elections:
Rep. Joseph Sestak (D-PA) - A freshman representative, Sestak took on the role of point man for the his party's 'date certain' redeployment from Iraq. Said Sestak, "We are on the road to nowhere in Iraq." "My military experience told me that you don't double down on a bad military bet. The facts show that security has not improved since the surge." To paraphrase Lincoln's praise of Grant, 'Tell me what brand of whiskey that Petraeus drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to Sestak.'
Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA) - Murphy was second only to Sestak in his support for a date certain redeployment which opponents characterized as the answer to an Al Qaeda prayer. He termed the Surge "Immoral," "Reckless" and the "Wrong Strategy." In hindsight, it was Murphy who could not have been more wrong.
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) - Obama's first vote of any consequence on Iraq was 2007’s Iraq De-Escalation Act of which he was a co-sponsor. This political and military neophyte described the Surge Strategy as "Chilling," "Ill-conceived" and making "absolutely no sense." Obama's longstanding associations with black racists, white terrorists and a newly minted Chicago felon pale in comparison to his feckless decision making in this case. Given a recent Hamas endorsement, it is starkly evident that the hopes of anarchists around the globe rest with this man and his naiveté
Surge detractors should take comfort in the fact that their president is not FDR. With a sedition prosecuting judiciary and a level of censorship unequaled in American History, Roosevelt would not have tolerated them.
MARK FURLONG
North Coventry
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