HOW MUCH HAS THE LEFT HURT US?
While I was getting ready for the show today I heard a station promo offering support to "our men and women in uniform fighting the war against terror." Seems simple enough, doesn't it? But stop to think just a moment .. let those words roll by just once more. We are fighting a war against terror. The problem here is that not everyone is on board.
There is no question that things in Iraq have not gone precisely the way many expected after the fall of Saddam. I don't think anyone foresaw the level of the insurgency that would dog our efforts to establish a free and independent Iraq. We also didn't foresee the degree to which the left in this country would continue, day after day, to criticize and condemn virtually every step taken by George Bush and coalition leaders in first liberating and then attempting to secure Iraq. Virtually every action taken by the American military in Iraq has been criticized by the left. First coalition forces didn't move on Fallujah soon enough, then it was too soon. Too many troops, not enough troops, too bold, too timid. Wrong war. Wrong place. Wrong time.
Since the very beginning there has been virtually no support for the liberation of Iraq from the left in this country, and the enemies of freedom in Iraq have certainly taken notice. How could they not? As soon as the United States appointed an interim Iraqi government to run the show until elections could be held, the left launched attacks on the validity of that government and predicted that it would fail. Don't you just know that those who opposed any freely elected government in Iraq just beamed?
When Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi visited Washington DC this past Fall the American media virtually ignored him, an attempt to strip him of any vestige of legitimacy, respectability and authority. How could the enemies of freedom in the Middle East not notice?
There are people in the Middle East, around the world and here at home who earnestly want the US to fail miserably in Iraq. In the Middle East you have leaders in Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia and other lesser countries who are frightened to death over what a freely elected government in Iraq would mean to them. These people are doing all they can to support the Iraqi Islamic insurgency. Around the world we have nations and leaders who want to see the role of the United States in international affairs weakened. They want a power vacuum that perhaps they can move to fill. They see a U.S. failure in Iraq as something that would weaken this country. The future lives of Iraqi civilians means nothing to these people compared to their desire to see the United States take a hit.
And that brings us here to our own people. There are people in this country: call them Bush-haters, Democrats, liberals, progressives ... call them what you will ... but they are dedicated to the idea of discrediting George Bush in any way that they can. They are dismayed over even the most remote possibility that Bush might actually pull a free, independent and stable Iraq out of his hat. They know that success in Iraq could change the face of the Middle East forever. It could be the beginning of the end of radical Islam .. and eventually make Islamic terrorism a thing of the past. Freedom is the greatest enemy of tyranny .. and those are the two sides battling it out in Iraq; but to listen to the left in this country you would think they're leading the cheers for the tyranny side.
Let's cut to the chase. How do you think things would be going in Iraq right now if there was unity in the United States? What do you think the situation would be in Iraq today if the American left had adopted the attitude that "Well, we're in this. So let's get the job done."? Would American soldiers that have died be alive today if the left in this country had not done so much to discredit Bush and virtually everything he's done in Iraq? How many insurgents would have stayed with their goats in Syria and Iran if they had believed that the United States was of one voice when it came to establishing a democratically elected government in Iraq?
Here's what I'm saying ... in more concise terms. The obsessive compulsive Bush haters in America have been giving aid and comfort to the Islamic terrorists and insurgents who want to make Iraq a theocratic Islamic state run by a group cloned from the Taliban. The encouragement these Islamic goons derive from the bleatings of the left in this country might be your most prominent cause for the level of insurgency that exists in Iraq today.
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