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To: Sully- who wrote (69201)	2/3/2009 4:27:08 AM
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A Time of War? Victor Davis Hanson The Corner That was a very odd Frank Rich column. nytimes.com He argued that our current economic distress is the moral equivalent of war and requires a patriotic unity behind economic commander-in-chief President Obama. Thus, the Republican opposition to the stimulus is moral bankruptcy, or worse. Does anyone remember "The war is lost" from Harry Reid, or Senator Clinton's "suspension of disbelief" about General Petraeus's account of the surge (cf. the moveon.org ad, General Betray Us), or Guantanamo's guards compared to Nazis and Pol Pot by Senator Durbin (and cf. the Kerry quote about our troops)? The war in Iraq was won despite the opposition in congress and in the media—note that the current elections seem to have had less security attention in Baghdad than our president's recent inauguration in D.C.. Not voting to print $1 trillion dollars in new money, and take on trillions more in new debt is not quite the same as declaring that U.S. soldiers under fire in the field or on duty were doomed to failure or conducting themselves in a manner similar to history's worst monsters. corner.nationalreview.com