GZ,
Yes, if 'we' don't do it, it will not get done, because most of the world under the U.N. does not have the heart, the stomach, or the backbone to do what is right for and to their neighbors...IMHO.
Shawn
Below is a long but good read for those that like a refreshingly different perspective on why our troops are there and what they have accomplished...I have been on distribution for a couple of years, but unfortunately don't always make the time to read this publication, with everything else I have to do.
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FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE
of the fold...
Last Wednesday, Baghdad fell -- along with bronze icons of Saddam
Hussein all over the country. And toppling in quick succession
thereafter were the cities of Kirkuk and Mosul in the north, and
finally this week Saddam's hometown of Tikrit. By Monday of this
week, Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal had declared,
"The major combat operations are over." The circumstances remain
dangerous, though, with pockets of regime loyalists and Jihadi
terrorist and death-squad fighters still to be cleaned out, but
a major front in our war with Jihadistan has been rendered safe.
And how about that war plan, described by every Leftmedia pundit
three short weeks ago as "failed" and inevitably leading to a
"quagmire"? The audacious war plan followed the maxim that "speed
kills," against odds achieving tactical surprise by launching the
ground offensives before the airstrikes, and driving straight for
the heart of Baghdad. Saddam and his generals seem to have been
following another warrior maxim -- that "generals always fight
the last war." And they seemed shocked into inaction by the
coalition fighters' boldness, as three weeks into the conflict,
from their forward objective at Saddam International -- no, make
that Baghdad International Airport -- the Army's 3rd Infantry
Division took "thunder runs" through the capital city, killing
an estimated 1,000 Iraqi soldiers on one night last weekend.
Gen. Tommy Franks needed a break from successful war planning,
so on Wednesday he took a tour -- around Baghdad. He stopped
for a cigar smoke and look-see around one of Saddam's palatial
estates then met with his component commanders. They briefed
Commander-in-Chief Bush from the palace. Nice victory lap for
Gen. Franks and his "band of brothers"!
To the dismay of anti-American pundits at home and abroad,
free Iraqi citizen-leaders representing Shi'ites, Sunnis and
Kurds convened this week outside the city of Ur (the birthplace
of Abraham) to discuss the formation of a new democratic
republic. This first meeting produced a broad 13-point plan for
self-governance and an end to the Ba'ath Party's reign of terror.
Lt. Gen. Jay G. Garner will head the postwar administration for
reconstruction until a permanent government can be established
by the Iraqi people. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer noted
this meeting "...should be always remembered as a day when Iraqis
expressed different opinions and weren't shot for it."
When President George Bush's preemptive policy of "regime change"
in Iraq was first announced 14 months ago, his administration
made clear its post-military commitment to that historic cradle
of civilization -- provide humanitarian assistance to civilians;
advocate a unified, multi-ethnic democracy which is at peace
with its neighbors; assist with economic aid to put Iraq on the
path to prosperity; and ensure the territorial unity of Iraq
until a new government can be established. Defense Secretary Don
Rumsfeld reiterated these points the day we crossed Iraq's border:
"Iraq belongs to the Iraqi people, and once Saddam Hussein's
regime is removed, we intend to see that functional and political
authority is placed in the hands of Iraqis as quickly as possible.
Coalition forces will stay only as long as necessary to finish
the job, and not a day longer."
A significant question now is that of what role the UN will play in
the reformation of Iraq. Clearly, as we have argued for years, the
UN is totally ineffective. Its sanctions in Iraq have been adhered
to only by law-abiding nations. (Kinda reminds us of the adage
that if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.) There is
mounting evidence that nations like France, Germany and Russia --
those members of the UN Security Council that so adamantly opposed
Operation Iraqi Freedom -- have been in flagrant violation of UN
sanctions in Iraq for years. They now want to sit in oversight
of Iraq's interim administration and reconstruction. No thanks.
Laughably, now that Iraq has been liberated and President Bush
has called on the UN to lift all sanctions, the UN is refusing
until Hans Blix and his team are back on the ground and can affirm
that all of Iraq's WMD programs have been discontinued. (And we
thought the UN Security Council balked at Operation Iraqi Freedom
because they were already satisfied Saddam had no WMD.)
And why, you ask, does Old Europe insist on controlling the postwar
process, via the UN? Simply stated, their vested economic and
political interests in Iraq and the region -- including illegal
oil and arms contracts and billions of dollars in Iraqi IOUs --
make the more-or-less laisser-faire postwar approach of the
Anglo-American coalition seem anything but imperialistic and
oil-thirsty.
Speaking of laughable, Jacques Chirac called President Bush this
week in what French Ambassador to the U.S. Jean-David Levitte
characterized as a "key to reopening the door to friendship. You
Americans saved us twice in the last century, and we will never
forget it." (He really said that!)
It was Thomas Jefferson who warned in 1801: "Peace, commerce,
and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances
with none." Significantly, the aftermath of Iraq's liberation
is the stage for the future of our "entangling alliance" with
the UN. For more on why The Federalist concludes that the time
has come for the U.S. to separate from the UN, and lay it to rest
along side the League of Nations, see our supplemental essay,
"The United Nations: Much Ado About Nothing."
Link to -- federalist.com
In other news...
On top of the difficult process of establishing a functional
democracy in Iraq after years of tyrannical rule, the U.S. also has
begun the high-stakes search to determine where Iraq's WMD arsenals
are located. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, noted, "We still have a lot of work to do in finding
and securing weapons of mass destruction sites and making sure
that those...weapons don't fall in the hands of terrorists."
Assisting in that search are a few captured Iraqi WMD program
chiefs who are being "vigorously encouraged" to tell us what
they know. Jaffar al-Jaffer, head of Iraq's nuclear WMD program
who fled Iraq for Syria last month, is now in U.S. custody along
with Lt. Gen. Amer al-Saadi, Saddam's military WMD and long-range
missile chief. Our sources indicate that al-Saadi most likely
knows all there is to know about where Saddam's WMD arsenals
are located. And the home of microbiologist Rihab Taha, AKA
"Dr. Germ," who headed the anthrax-weaponization program, was
raided by U.S. Special Forces, and substantial evidence seized.
The overwhelming success of the regime-change in Iraq -- the domino
effect of a proposed democracy in the heart of the Muslim world,
combined with the U.S. mission to eliminate the Jihadistan WMD
threat -- is creating some heartburn for Saddam's former allies.
Most notably, last November, The Federalist reported that our
intelligence sources believed some of Saddam's biological and
nuclear WMD caches had been moved to Syria, though we still think
substantial caches remain in Iraq. To that end, Secretary of State
Powell put the Ba'athist regime of Bashar Assad in Damascus on
notice Monday that if they don't come clean now, they are next
in line to get "Saddamized": "As the President noted over the
weekend, we are concerned that Syria has been participating in
the development of weapons of mass destruction... [T]hey should
review their actions and their behavior...especially the support
of terrorist activity. And so we have a new situation in the
region and we hope that all the nations in the region will now
review their past practices and behavior."
To ensure Assad was all ears, the U.S. closed the spigot on an oil
pipeline from Iraq estimated to pump 150,000 to 200,000 barrels
of oil to Syria daily.
Speaking of "terrorism," there have been numerous discoveries
in Iraq to support the terrorism element of the "nexus" between
weapons of mass destruction and Jihadis as premier delivery and
dispersal systems. And another "smoking gun" was found in Baghdad
Tuesday. U.S. Special Forces captured long-sought terrorist Abu
Abbas, who led the hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship
in 1985 and murdered elderly disabled American passenger Leon
Klinghoffer.
Of course, Abu Abbas is only the latest of the terrorist smoking
guns. In addition to reams of evidence linking Iraqi intelligence
to al-Qa'ida discovered in the last month, last August The
Federalist reported that Abu Nidal, a leading Jihadistan mastermind
responsible for three decades of murder and mayhem, was found
dead in Baghdad. Nidal headed the Fatah-Revolutionary Council,
which is culpable for hundreds of terrorist attacks and murders.
Quote of the week...
"Our work is not done; the difficulties have not passed; but the
regime of Saddam Hussein has passed into history. Thanks to the
courage and the might of our military, the American people are
more secure. Thanks to the courage and might of our military,
the Iraqi people are now free." --President George W. Bush
On cross-examination...
"Our military no longer is just a fighting force per se, but is
asked to preserve oil fields, clear waterways, organize oppressed
peoples like the Kurds, feed those without food and water, and
under fire distinguish killers from innocents. When it clears
Iraq of Saddam Hussein, it will have been done more to feed and
help the Iraqi people than all the efforts of the UN of the last
two decades." --Victor Hanson
Open query...
"How many more thousands of Iraqis dancing in the streets as
Saddam's statues are pulled down would it take for the naysayers
to admit that they were mistaken?" --David Stolinsky
News from the Swamp...
In the Executive Branch, President Bush signed an $80-billion
wartime spending bill Wednesday but will get to control only
$15 billion -- in other words, plenty of Congressional pork will
piggyback on this one!
And The Federalist was most disappointed to learn that in the
week U.S. citizen soldiers were busy liberating the Iraqi people,
the Bush administration announced it would not veto the 1994
Clinton-Feinstein gun-control ban (on semi-automatic firearms
and magazines over 10 rounds) set to expire in September, 2004 --
if the Senate and House vote to extend the ban. "The president
supports the current law, and he supports reauthorization of the
current law," stated White House spokesman Scott McClellan. This
announcement comes on the heels of another shooting in a government
school, this time in New Orleans. (More on that story under "From
the States...") Of course, the irony is the Clinton-Feinstein
gun ban did nothing to prevent that shooting....
Granted, those insidious political pragmatists are at work here,
but it was a colossal blunder to send up a white flag on this
issue now -- or ever! Apparently the White House pragmatists
missed the reception the "Ditsy Tricks" band got after their lead
singer bashed America's sovereign right to defend its security.
Supporting Clinton-Feinstein, in effect, bashes every God-fearing
law-abiding American's sovereign right to defend their security.
To put current federal gun laws into perspective, consider this:
Jessica Lynch, the 19-year-old Army private taken prisoner with
other members in her unit after they ran out of 9mm and 5.56mm
ammo, later dramatically rescued by Special Forces, can't legally
purchase a handgun to defend herself against violence when she
returns home.
In better news from the administration, U.S. Secretary of Education
Rod Paige once again stepped out and showed he is no pragmatist!
"All things equal, I would prefer to have a child in a school
that has a strong appreciation for the values of the Christian
community. The reason that Christian schools and Christian
universities are growing is a result of a strong value system."
It only took the Left a New York second to fire back. Sen. Edward
Kennedy, (D-Purgatory), chastised: "By expressing your preference
for schools that teach the values of a single faith, you send
an unacceptable signal that some families and their children
are favored over others because of their faith. I urge you
to repudiate these divisive comments." Salting Kennedy's
wound, a few days later, Dr. Paige reiterated his support for
school vouchers, noting that blacks would benefit the most from
competitive vouchers: "Black children are the lowest-performing
minority in public schools."
Congress is in recess -- Easter break, don't you know -- but
there were some interesting developments on the Hill.
In the House, Minority Leader "San Fran Nan" Pelosi was practicing
some "fuzzy math" this week: "I have absolutely no regret about
my vote [against] this war. The cost in human lives. The cost
to our budget, probably $100 billion. We could have probably
brought down that statue for a lot less. ...But the most important
question at this time, now that we're toward the end of it, is what
is the cost to the war on terrorism?" Apparently Nan missed the
most recent estimate of the costs thus far -- about $28 billion,
all included.
And consistent with The Federalist's perennial recommendation,
Maryland Rep. Roscoe Bartlett is sponsoring legislation (H.R. 1550)
to move Income Redistribution Day from April 15th to the first
Monday in November, noting, "Doesn't it make sense that the price
Americans pay for our government should be the Number One priority
for voters when they cast their ballots for Members of Congress?"
In the Senate, last week, RINOs Olympia Snowe and George Voinovich,
predictably, short-circuited the President's modest $726 billion
(over 10 years) tax cut -- siding with the Tom Daschle cadre of
Sociocrats who don't want their feed bag reduced more than $350
billion.
On the Homeland Security front...
The nation's five-tier threat-alert system was lowered from level
four (orange) to level three (yellow), where it had been since
March 17, when President Bush gave Saddam his 48-hour warning.
"While we continue to be at risk to the threat of terrorism at
an elevated level, extensive protective measures remain in place
throughout our nation," according to DHS Secretary Tom Ridge.
"As Secretary Rumsfeld has noted, hostilities from Operation Iraqi
Freedom still continue and there is, 'a lot of work left to do.'
We must be vigilant and alert to the possibility that al-Qa'ida and
those sympathetic to their cause, as well as former Iraqi-regime
state agents and affiliated organizations, may attempt to conduct
attacks against the U.S. or our interests abroad."
HomSec's "Operation Liberty Shield," which increased security
at U.S. borders, critical infrastructures, transportation sector
lines and enhanced deployment capabilities of all federal-response
assets, is also standing down -- this, despite evidence there were
some terrorist plans uncovered by the OLS. DHS spokesman Brian
Roehrkasse reports: "We believe that during Operation Liberty
Shield, there were individuals in places, at times, where they
should not have been."
From the "Department of Military Readiness"...
When House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi was not busy condemning our
campaign in Iraq and praising anti-American agitators ("I salute
those in the streets who are protesting the war."), she was busy
giving credit "in large measure" for the quick victory in Iraq
to -- with a straight face -- Bill Clinton. She did not mention
that Bill Clinton, who loathed the military, "downsized" military
readiness by 700,000 active-duty and 293,000 reserve troops,
including eight Army divisions, 20 Air Force and Navy air wings,
232 strategic bombers, 19 strategic ballistic missile submarines,
four aircraft carriers, 121 surface combat ships and submarines,
not to mention all the logistical assets needed to sustain these
forces.
Speaking of so-called "war protestors in the streets," we
came across this security alert issued by the Army Criminal
Investigation Command last week: "...[A Department of Defense]
family member, while stuck in D.C. traffic, was identified as
having a DoD sticker (on her car). At the time there was an
anti-war protest under way. When her vehicle was observed by
the demonstrators, a member of the group yelled out 'war bitch'
and her vehicle was immediately surrounded. While some of the
members pounded on her vehicle with their fists, others 'keyed' it
and wrote the word 'peace' on the paint finish. It is recommended
DoD personnel should avoid these protests at all cost."
To really understand the effect of Clinton's contraction of our
military capability (which helped give him a free pass on the
economy for eight years) there have been numerous profiles of
families of reserve and guard military personnel called to do a
tour in harm's way, or to fill for someone else in harm's way.
These deployments are not only dangerous and severely disruptive
on families because of the lengthy absence of a spouse and parent,
but they are also often financially devastating. Of course, as The
Federalist has noted for years, the contraction of our active duty
military forces has been accomplished on the back of reserve and
guard components, men and women who did not sign up for numerous
"policing" deployments around the world. Current active duty force
strength is 1.2 million -- only 400,000 of those are Army regulars.
These forces are sufficient for one battlefront, but considering
the list of additional deployments for "peacekeeping," the reserve
and guard units are getting, well, abused.
From the "Department of Military Correctness"...
Mr. Zadil Ansari, leader of the Islamic community at the Pentagon
(yes, there is one), is rallying his followers to protest the
choice of Rev. Franklin Graham to lead Good Friday prayers at
the Pentagon today. Rev. Graham has been openly (and rightly)
critical of aspects of Islam inciting its adherents to violence.
Graham's statements about Islam "have been very controversial
and divisive," claims Islamist Pentagon staffer Ansari. Yes --
truth is often divisive. Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Ryan
Yantis responded that the invitation to Rev. Graham would not be
rescinded, stating, "One religion, regardless of the religion,
does not have the veto right over another religion." Rev. Graham
will provide the homily about the death and resurrection of Jesus
Christ in today's services.
Of note, you may recall that The Federalist reported last month:
"The U.S. Armed Forces now have 14 Muslim cleric chaplains to
attend to all the Muslim recruits now in the military ranks.
And nine of them were trained by the Graduate School of Islamic
and Social Sciences in Virginia -- that's right, the same outfit
that was raided last year because of its suspected ties to
terrorist groups." Indeed, "divisive"!
Judicial Benchmarks...
The Supremes reached a mush-minded 6-3 decision that states may
ban cross burnings -- just so long as the arson is not meant as a
"speech act." The justices got themselves into this mess because
of prior decisions that conduct -- such as burning a flag --
may be construed as speech, and thus fall under First Amendment
protections. God Save This Honorable Court!
From the Leftjudiciary, encroaching ever further into legislative
territory ... in New York, Nassau County Supreme Court Justice John
P. Dunne ruled that the surviving member of a Vermont "civil union"
may sue as a spouse in a wrongful death case. This is the first
courtroom decision to define the Vermont "union" as the precise
equivalent of marriage.
Regarding the redistribution of your income...
With Income Redistribution Day just passed, friend of The
Federalist Bruce Bartlett notes: "Throughout most of American
history, taxes were levied principally on consumption, rather
than income.... In the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton had
this to say, 'It is a signal advantage of taxes on articles of
consumption that they contain in their own nature a security
against excess. ... If duties are too high, they lessen the
consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the
Treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper
and moderate bounds'."
And there is plenty of income being redistributed just to file
tax returns. There are now almost as many tax preparers -- 1.2
million -- as military personnel, and they are getting a lot more
of your money than our GIs.
The BIG lie...
From the "alCoran News Network" Files, sometimes a lie is not what
is said, but what is left unsaid.... To that end, we included
these comments from CNN Chief News Director Eason Jordan: "Over the
last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government
to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with
Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by
what I saw and heard -- awful things that could not be reported
because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of ... our
Baghdad staff. ... I felt awful having these stories bottled up
inside me. Now that Saddam Hussein's regime is gone, I suspect we
will hear many, many more gut-wrenching tales from Iraqis about the
decades of torment. At last, these stories can be told freely."
Well if you can't report the truth, why report at all?
Former CNN correspondent and Baghdad reporter Peter Collins writes
that talking points for CNN's exclusive interviews with Hussein
were written "item-by-item" by Iraq's Information Ministry.
You may recall, we chastised CBS's resident traitor talkinghead
Dan Rather for his "exclusive interview" with Saddam in March.
Wonder what CBS put on the table for those ratings? Bottom line --
those who are relying on the CBS, ABC, NBC or CNN "news cartels"
to shape their worldview, well, they have cornered the market on
disinformation.
On the Left...
More effluent from the "Clinton Presidue" Files: Bill Clinton
found a few audiences this week, first criticizing the Bush
administration for invading Iraq: "If you got an interdependent
world, and you cannot kill, jail or occupy all your adversaries,
sooner or later you have to make a deal. ... Since September
11, it looks like we can't hold two guns at the same time.
If you fight terrorism, you can't make America a better place
to be." But apparently this master-prevaricator can still
hold two conversations at one time, telling another audience:
"We've got the power, we've got the juice. We should do the
job. ... Mr. Bush has done the right thing in removing Saddam
Hussein from power. They now have a fresh chance to do the right
thing and rebuild Iraq." He's a pinball wizard!
From the "Useful Idiots" Department, Hollywonk Tim Robbins is
exercised because the National Baseball Hall of Fame cancelled its
April 26 anniversary celebration of the 1988 movie "Bull Durham"
because of anti-American ranting by its co-stars Robbins and
his significant other, Susan Sarandon. Robbins seized on the
same worn hypocritical theme other Leftists have invoked when
their opinions are not uniformly accepted across the nation: If I
disagree with you, that is my First Amendment right -- and if you
disagree with me, that is a violation of my First Amendment rights.
Of course, Sarandon also picked up on that theme: "It's so ironic
that we should be quote unquote liberating another country and
giving them a democracy when we're telling people here if they
open their mouths, they're not allowed to participate."
How nescient are these babbling idiots! Perhaps if they actually
read our Constitution, they would realize that the First Amendment
restricts only Congress from making laws abridging free speech
and the right to free assembly.
And speaking of "free assembly," South Carolina talk-show host
Mike Gallagher is sponsoring a boycott of the Dixie Chicks, who
are launching their U.S. concert tour on May 1 in Greenville.
Ditsy Tricks lead singer Ms. Natalie Maines, who used her concert
stage on foreign soil to protest against the U.S., is also claiming
her First Amendment rights are being abridged. The Marshall Tucker
Band will provide alternate entertainment in Greenville on May 1,
with all proceeds going to support military families. Undoubtedly
in the next tow weeks, Ms. Maines will be making appearances on
any Leftmedia outlet willing to offer her redemption.
From the "Non Compos Mentis" Files...
Remember Rodney "Can't-we-all-just-get-along" King, whose
videotaped drug-induced refusal to surrender to police after a
long high-speed pursuit and felony stop -- and subsequent finding
that police efforts to subdue King were reasonable -- led to the
1992 riots in Los Angeles, which, in turn, resulted in 55 deaths,
more than 2,000 injuries and $1 billion in property damage?
King collected a $3.8 million settlement from the city of Los
Angeles in 1994, and he has burned through much of that, racking
up subsequent convictions for spouse abuse, multiple counts of
drug possession, indecent exposure, reckless driving, etc., then
was booked again, this time for crashing his SUV into a house
after a 100 mph chase through LA. King, now 39, is suspected of
being DUI.
Around the nation...
And it's time for a by-the-numbers update on how fares the
recall of California's Gov. Gray Davis -- who has just earned
the distinction of being the most-disapproved-of governor ever
in the 50-year history of Field Polls in the Golden State;
65% of Californians dislike their governor's job performance.
That makes the recall efforts look promising, although 59% also
disapprove of a special election for the vote, with only 33%
favoring it. Nonetheless, 46% say they would vote Davis out if
the recall is held, slightly outpacing the 43% planning to leave
him in his office seat.
Colorado Gov. Bill Owens signed a state school voucher law
on Wednesday. The modest program will allow low-income K-12
children in low-performing school districts vouchers to pay for
private-school tuition. The Colorado Education Association,
debunking it as "a sad day for our children," is mulling over
court action to overturn the law.
And about that shooting in New Orleans, despite penitentiary-like
security measures and metal detectors at John McDonogh High
School, a 15-year-old was killed and three others injured
by another student who smuggled in an AK-47 assault rifle.
All the typical Leftmedia calls for gun control notwithstanding
(as we previously mentioned, none of those measures prevented this
assault), we were interested to find that this school was named
for a wealthy merchant and financier, John McDonogh, who, at his
death in 1850, split his $1.5-million estate between New Orleans
and Baltimore for the promotion of education. New Orleans spent
its share to launch its government school system, while Baltimore
spent its share to create a disciplined military orphanage for
the betterment of young men.
In contrast to the McDonogh School in New Orleans today,
the endowed private McDonogh School in Baltimore has no metal
detectors at its doors, and boys and girls graduating from its
curriculum number among Maryland's most esteemed leaders in
business, medicine, law and public service.
Around the world...
Speaking in St. Louis Wednesday, President Bush proclaimed
of the beneficial effects of the war in Iraq, "Terrorists and
tyrants have been put on notice." As we noted two weeks ago,
that does seem true for North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong
Il, whose Communist regime has now agreed to multilateral
talks next week over defanging its nuclear-weapons facilities.
Representatives of Red China will be at the discussions, with
reps from Japan and South Korea nearby for close consultations.
The Bush administration's stated objective for the talks is that
both of North Korea's nuclear development programs be entirely
dismantled.
Speaking of North Korea, an official state organ groused last
weekend, putting this characterization on UN weapons inspections:
"Taking off our pants." No wonder the North Koreans have
miscalculated the ramifications of breaking their word -- they
are stuck in the Clinton era. So we just file that under the
"Naked Aggression" Department....
But the "on notice" message seems not to have arrived on the
desk of Cuba's Maximum Dictator Fidel Castro. Raced through the
Communist government's kangaroo courts, nearly 80 Cuban liberty
advocates were tried and sentenced to 12- to 27-year imprisonments
for such crimes against the state as possessing a fax machine
and writing feature articles in nonstate magazines.
And last...
In The Federalist No. 03-14/15, we noted, "according to a search
of print-media archives, the word 'quagmire' has occurred more
than 800 times in articles about progress on the warfront with
Iraq in the two weeks since hostilities commenced March 19.
And it has been uttered by 24-hour news-cycle talkingheads more
times than can be counted -- second only to 'shock and awe'."
Well, despite the Leftmedia high hopes, they didn't get their
"quagmire." So, what's next? According to a search of print-media
archives, the new Leftmedia catch phrase is "humanitarian crisis."
Since April 9th, when Saddam's big bronze icon was symbolically
felled to the ground in central Baghdad, the phrase "humanitarian
crisis" has occurred in 376 "post-quagmire" articles.
Ah, but alas, the talkingheads can stand down their mostly inane
and mindless coverage of Iraq and get back to their mostly inane
and mindless coverage of sensational crimes -- battling for market
share and advertising dollars on the fields of innocent blood --
like the discovery of the remains of a young mother and her infant
child washed up on a Leftcoast beach.
Lex et Libertas -- Semper Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher,
for the editors and staff.
(Please pray, every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing
in harm's way, and their families waiting for their safe return.
For a list of those killed on the Iraqi front in our war with
Jihadistan, link to -- http://www.federalist.com/news/heroes.asp ) |
