The Dems keep running their collective mouths that we should high-tail it out of Iraq so that we can get to the business of fighting al Qaeda.
I’m just not sure how — in the face of all evidence to the contrary — they can keep claiming that Iraq is not the biggest front in the battle with al Qaeda?
Lawrence F. Kaplan at The New Republic — depite being a Liberal — understands this. And he wonders aloud why Pelosi and Murtha don’t seem to get it:
[W]hen Nancy Pelosi confessed last year that she felt “sad” about President Bush’s claims that Al Qaeda operates in Iraq, she seemed to be disputing what every American soldier in Iraq, every Al Qaeda operative, and anyone who reads a newspaper already knew to be true. (When I questioned him about Pelosi’s assertion, a U.S. officer in Ramadi responded, incredulously, that Al Qaeda had just held a parade in his sector.)
If it’s not al Qaeda in Iraq that we’re fighting, then who are they?
But the insinuation that Al Qaeda’s depredations in Iraq might be something other than what they appear to be has become a staple of the congressional debate over Iraq. Thus, to buttress his own case for withdrawal, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said, “We have to change course [away from Iraq] and turn our attention back to the war on Al Qaeda and their allies”–the clear message being that neither plays much of a role there.
What is going on here? There are two possibilities: First, Reid and Pelosi could be purposefully minimizing the stakes in Iraq. Or, second, they don’t know what they’re talking about. My guess is some combination of the two.
I think it’s a bit of both, too — but with a heavy, heavy measure of “they don’t know what they’re talking about”.
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Let’s break it down like this:
- al Qaeda is our enemy.
- We have been at war with al Qaeda since August 1996, when Osama bin Laden issued a “Declaration of War” against the U.S.
- al Qaeda is in Iraq.
- We are fighting and destroying al Qaeda in Iraq.
- al Qaeda cannot be negotiated with via diplomacy.
- Pulling out of Iraq now will not end al Qaeda’s war against us.
- We need to continue fighting and destroying al Qaeda where ever they might be.
- For now, they are mostly in Iraq.
What part of that is in dispute? What part of that does not the Left not understand or agree with?
I think we need to realize there is not a single country in this world, not a religion, not any political detente, that will stop Al Quada. The only thing that will work is to kill them, one by one until they are so weakened, they will finally dissipate. Of course they will. It is a matter of time, commitment, and force.
What I wonder is what will it take for that to happen.
Left by dianne on May 2nd, 2007 at 9:14 pm