Liberals never did get their wish — that Iraq should be viewed and remembered as an unwinnable, politically-motivated quagmire, reminiscent of the unsuccessful Vietnam conflict.
To their eternal dismay, the War in Iraq will be remembered as a success – if not sooner, then later. It will be viewed as the critical step in the founding of a strong democracy in the most volatile area of the world, the Middle East. Some 27 million Iraqis and Kuwaitis were liberated. Sadaam Hussein’s use of chemical weapons to kill masses of people (yes, those would be weapons of mass destruction) was terminated. Mass graves receive no more dead Iraqis. Torture chambers, in existence for the pleasure of Hussein’s maniacal sons, are closed. The potential use of Iraq by terrorists as a training ground has been greatly diminished. And Islamist extremists now have their work cut out for them to make Baghdad the capitol of their future empire, as their prophecies demand.
Now Obama had started the process to take credit for the war in Iraq. Commend the troops, set a timetable for withdrawal, and attach the Democrat label to the success. Whatever.
Moving forward, I think the war on terror in Afghanistan is far more likely to resemble the Vietnam War, with the terrain being so inaccessible, or at least unfamiliar to us and familiar to the indigenous peoples. Another similarity — Democrats, who are by nature anti-war, anti-weapons and anti-national-defense, are truly in charge of this war. They screamed for 5 years that Afghanistan was the ‘real’ stage for the war on terror — oops, the skirmish against troublemakers. Well, they got the war they wanted, and it’s completely in their hands.
You can be fairly sure we will seldom hear of casualties. If we do, the details will be vague. Reports of fatalities will be buried in the ‘D’ section. There will be no no trumpeting of horrific accounts of mounting casualties or civilian deaths, as there was during ‘Bush’s war”. And, of course, no reports of Obama making our soldiers fight without body armor, proper weaponry and the like.
Obama wouldn’t be capable of that; that was Bush’s secret little sadistic pleasure.
Pray for our troops, now more than ever. They now have a Commander-in-Chief who despises them, and who will use them as pawns with every strategic political move he makes.
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