When Your Enemies are Happy
When your enemies celebrate the results of your elections, something has gone terribly wrong.
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A purported audio recording by the leader of Iraq's al Qaeda wing gloated over the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, as a top U.S. general said the military was preparing to recommend strategy changes. |
Source: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?...
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"This issue (the elections) is not a purely domestic issue for America, but it is the defeat of Bush's hawkish policies in the world," Khamenei said in remarks reported by Iran's student news agency ISNA on Friday. "Since Washington's hostile and hawkish policies have always been against the Iranian nation, this defeat is actually an obvious victory for the Iranian nation." |
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061110/pl_nm/usa_elections_iran_dc_3
Makes you feel good, doesn't it?
Ann Althouse puts it well:
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I'm upset because I think we have sent a terrible message to our enemies: Just hang on long enough and continue to inflict some damage, and the Americans will lose heart and give up. You barely need anything at all. You might not be able to hijack a plane with a box cutter anymore, but you can take back a country -- a country we conquered with overwhelming military power -- merely by mercilessly and endlessly setting off small bombs in your own town day after day. How much harder it becomes ever to fight and win a war again. Only pacifists and isolationists should feel good about the way this election was won. |
We've emboldened our enemies and shown them we have no stomach for war. Even when faced with enemies who are bent on our destruction, we're seemingly happier to just hope it goes away.
Via: Hot Air & Instapundit
Comments
Ann Althouse makes a pretty obvious point. Even in the US revolution, the main goal was to outlast the British resolve in order to achieve victory. The longer any conflict drags out, the more unpopular it becomes and people clamor for its end. I dont think its become any harder to win a war, we should just never expect it to be as "easy" as easy as PG1. Even as "easy" as that was, look where we are now.
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November 14, 2006 07:24 AM