Orson is a very clear writer that must really piss of the rest of the liberal world.
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations.
But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it — and in the most damaging possible way — I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages.
To all intents and purposes, when the Democratic Party jettisoned Joseph Lieberman over the issue of his support of this war, they kicked me out as well. The party of Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan — the party I joined back in the 1970s — is dead. Of suicide.
My family (not me though) has always been a member of the democratic party and I have been slowly changing that with arguments and debates.
It is his writing on the WOT that really impressed me.
I recently read an opinion piece in which the author ridiculed the very concept of a “war on terror,” saying that it makes as much sense as if, after Pearl Harbor, FDR had declared a “war on aviation.”
Without belaboring the obvious shortcomings of the analogy, I will agree with the central premise. The name “war on terror” clearly conceals the fact that we are really at war with specific groups and specific nations; we can no more make war on a methodology than we can make war on nitrogen.
On Nation Building based on the democratic attempts they always failed.
Another charge against the Bush administration’s conduct of the war is that they are engaged in the hopeless task of “nation-building.” And this is true — except for the word “hopeless.”
But what is the alternative? I’ve heard several, each more disastrous and impossible and even shameful than the one before.
And a real reason to not allow the Left to win either houses on Tuesday!
As happened in South Vietnam. The negotiated peace was more or less holding after American withdrawal. But then a Democratic Congress refused to authorize any further support for the South Vietnamese government. No more armaments. No more budget.
In other words, we forcibly disarmed our allies, while their enemies continued to be supplied by the great Communist powers. The message was clear: Those who rely on America are fools. We didn’t even have the decency to arrange for the evacuation of the people who had trusted us and risked the most in supporting what they thought was our mutual cause.
I do not want America to once again to run from our promises to our allies and cut support for Democratic states that need our help to fight the terrorists.
Go read Orson and all of the thoughts of why the Democratic party is not good for America.