The surge is working and the anti-war crowd is in denial
Woe is the anti-war lobby! Things are improving in Iraq, and they don’t know what to do with themselves - other than fail to acknowledge what is becoming obvious, that things are getting better in Iraq and the surge is working. From The Australian:
IN April, US Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declared the war in Iraq lost, saying the the extreme violence in the country proved the surge was accomplishing nothing. This week Senator Reid is still engaged in the vain attempt to block funding for the war in the US Senate, refusing to acknowledge the extraordinary success of the surge.
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It is far too early to declare victory but you would think that all Americans and Australians, regardless of whether they supported the war in Iraq or not, would want to stick with a strategy that is delivering peace and security to a people who have suffered not just 4 1/2 years of a brutal insurgency but also three decades of tyranny and war. Yet some Democrats in the US, as with some on the Left in Australia, are still determined to lose the war if possible by withdrawing troops, even when success is starting to appear to be within reach. Undaunted by the fact that there has been an improvement in Iraq, Democratic staffers on Congress’s Joint Economic Committee are trying to generate more bad headlines by focusing on the cost of the war, which they calculated would reach $US3.5 trillion by 2017. To arrive at such a massive total, the committee threw in everything they could think of, including their best guesses at the Iraq war’s impact on oil prices and other economic factors.
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The sad fact is that for most of the anti-war Left, the only thing that matters is delivering a defeat to the Bush administration, and in achieving that end the Iraqi people are expendable. John Pilger said in January 2004 that while he didn’t like the “terrible civilian atrocities” committed by what he called “the resistance”, “the outcome of this resistance is terribly important for the rest of the world” and that only a defeat in Iraq of the US “military machine” and the Bush administration would make our world secure.
Nice. But that kind of sentiment isn’t only found in the Australian left. You find plenty of it here in the U.S.
Some other good news from Iraq:
• In Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, British Major Gen. Graham Binns said that attacks against British and American forces have plunged 90% since the start of September.
• Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki reported that terrorist attacks of all kinds are down almost 80% from last year’s peak — thanks directly to the U.S. surge of 30,000 new troops.
• Amid growing signs that even Iraq extremists have tired of terrorism and killing, a Sunni religious group closed down the high-profile Muslim Scholars Association because of its ties to terrorists.
• U.S. Major Gen. James Simmons, speaking in Baghdad, said Iran’s pledges to stop sending weapons and explosives into Iraq “appear to be holding up.” Roadside bombs, the leading killer of U.S. troops, have plunged 52% since March, he added.
• Perhaps most touching, according to a report from Michael Yon, who deserves to be the first blogger to win a Pulitzer Prize, Muslims are asking Iraqi Christians to return to help build Iraq.
Iraqi Muslims recently crammed into St. John’s Catholic church in Baghdad to attend a Christian service. According to Yon, “Muslims keep telling me to get it on the news. ‘Tell the Christians to come home to their country Iraq.’ ”
• Finally, there’s this from Douglas Halaspaska, a reporter on the Web site U.S. Cavalry ON Point: “I came to Ramadi expecting a war and what I found was a city that has grown from the carnage, and all its inhabitants — both Iraqi and American — healing. I was not expecting what I found in Iraq . . . it was better than all of that.”
Success in Iraq is the last thing the liberal left wants. It would invalidate their premise that George W. Bush is evil incarnate, that the U.S. is an empire bent on world domination, that Islamic terrorism can not be defeated, and that capitalism is the bane of all humankind. No, they need the U.S. to fail miserably, and the only way to do that is to leave Iraq as a mess so they can point their bony fingers at disaster we will have left, blame the eeeeevil Republicans and neo-cons for the failure, and attempt to set up their socialist selves as the answer to the world’s problems.
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“Perhaps most touching, according to a report from Michael Yon, who deserves to be the first blogger to win a Pulitzer Prize, Muslims are asking Iraqi Christians to return to help build Iraq.”
I read that report, and showed it to everyone around me. That is truly exciting.
I will never understand rooting against your own country - yet, an entire segment of our society is doing that - their hatred has blinded them.
Michael Yon deserves many awards and more attention from the MSM.