Read that headline again, real slowly — sounds like an oxymoron, huh? If only that were all that it was, a word game — but, it’s not. It is a deadly serious, nation-crippling possibility that looks more likely each and every day. Consider the following since this last Friday.

On Friday the House of Representatives voted to approve a non-binding resolution “against” President Bush’s new strategy know as the “troop surge”. House Speaker Nancy (I need a bigger plane, dammit) Pelosi vowed to support (D) John Murtha’s proposal to strangle Bush’s ability to prosecute the war via limiting or controlling future funding.

Saturday, the Senate was called into a rare Saturday session to vote on its own version of a non-binding resolution for exactly the same thing. This time, due to how the Senate had always functioned, the Dems did not get the 60 votes needed to force cloture and allow the resolution to come to a vote of the full Senate, but unlike the last time this resolution came up, five more Republicans joined the previous two, giving the Dems seven GOP votes. Not enough to get to 60, but gettin’ way too close. Some more round-heeled GOPers that may not have a good election next time.

Today, the Senate Dems announced that they will be looking at ways to amend the ‘02 measure that allowed the President to go to war against Saddam Hussein, although the GOP leadership is vowing to stop that, too.

And then there’s Hillary. Not to be outdone by her Senate colleagues and to “fix” her lean to the center the last couple of years, she is now calling for the pullout in Iraq to start in 90 days! If you think that Barrack Obama and his one-year-pullout-plan ain’t havin’ some effect on Hillary’s campaign, think again. (Jeez, can’t we all just give Bill some benefit of the doubt here, ’cause he sure doesn’t want to hear that awful screeching anymore — do we really have to listen to it for 4 or 8 years? Arrrrgh!)

Hugh Hewitt blogs today about how the Democrats are almost totally impotent when it comes to the war against Radical Islam. He cites today’s LA Times column by Jonathan Chait as an example of this. Being non-serious about the most serious threat to Western Civilization is silly, and suicidal. Do we really want silly-suicidal folk running our country? In Nov. ‘06 the answer to that seems to have been a yes. In his post Hugh remarks:

Chait’s subject is Rudy Giuliani, but he uses the war as a way to enhance the snark about the presidential candidate whose popularity obviously concerns him. Chait is serious about beginning the effort to diminish Rudy, just as others from the MSM have been busy attempting to diminish Mitt Romney with the “Mormon flip-flopper” meme. But he isn’t serious about the war at all. Almost no one on the left is anymore.

Chait is a younger version of William Odom: Unconcerned with the facts of life under Saddam, oblivious to the consequences for Iraq and the region if the U.S. were to withdraw, and indifferent to the consequences for Americans of defeat.

There is a vast divide between the serious and the silly. A divide that is easy to see, impossible to deny, and certain to lead to disaster if the silly are other than a source of amusement or an object of scorn.

Hugh also brings up today’s Chicago Sun-Times column by Mark Steyn — Why the Iraq war is turning into America’s defeat. This one is worth a full read, but here are a couple of excerpts of Steyn on the War in Iraq.

The Iranians don’t care who kills whom as long as every night when Americans turn on the evening news there’s smoke over Baghdad. As I say in my book, if you happen to live in Ramadi or Basra, Iraq is about Iraq; if you live in Tehran, or Cairo, or Bei-jing, Moscow, Pyongyang or Brussels, Iraq is about America. American will. American purpose. American credibility.

And then, after describing the Murtha plan to block/limit/control funding for the war Steyn concludes:

“Undermining”? Why not? To the Slow-Bleed Democrats, it’s the Republicans’ war. To an increasing number of what my radio pal Hugh Hewitt calls the White-Flag Republicans, it’s Bush’s war. To everyone else on the planet, it’s America’s war. And it will be America’s defeat.

I’m so sick of driving around West LA and seeing bumper stickers decrying “Bush’s War”, “Buck Fush”, “War is Not the Answer”, “No War For Oil” et. all. We have troops on the ground on foreign soil — all fighting, some bleeding, some dying. The Democrats’ defeatist position is untenable, reprehensible, and yes — unpatriotic! Consider these words by the late 2nd LT Mark Daily — “I genuinely believe the United States Army is a force of good in this world.” Over at Michelle Malkin’s blog you can read these and the other words that Mark wrote at MySpace including the following.

Don’t forget that human beings have a responsibility to one another and that Americans have a responsibility to the oppressed. Assisting a formerly oppressed population in converting their torn society into a plural, democratic one is dangerous and difficult business, especially when being attacked and sabotaged from literally every direction.

So if you have anything to say to me at the end of this reading, let it at least include “Good Luck.”

Mark didn’t live long enough to have to endure his own country’s Congress not only NOT wishing him good luck, but working hard to wish him, and his brothers and sisters in arms something else entirely. As an Op-Ed piece at the website for Investors Business Daily points out:

We find it scary that the Democratic and terrorist game plans are indistinguishable.
(…)
We’d have to go back to Benedict Arnold to find Americans as eager as Murtha & Co. to see an American defeat on the battlefield.

They are working on the game plan of al-Qaida’s No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri. In October 2005, Zawahiri outlined al-Qaida’s plan in a letter to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, late head of al-Qaida in Iraq:

“The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq. The second stage: Establish an Islamic authority . . . over as much territory as you can spread its power in Iraq . . . in order to fill the void stemming from the departure of the Americans.”

John Murtha and his perfidious friends are working on creating that void and completing Zawahiri’s first stage. They are the appeasers Churchill warned about who hope that by feeding the Islamofascist tiger, it will eat us last.

I vote that we don’t let the “Islamofascist tiger” eat us at all! I say support the troops, really support them! Let your congressman and Senator know that retreat & defeat is not a strategy for success or victory — only the last pathetic whimpering of Baby Boomer narcissists more interested in their own navels, and their own re-elections, than in their country’s, and its warriors’, best interest. (db)

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