A reader has called our political posts here "negative" and "bitter." We consider this a natural response when the highest Congressional leaders in the $4-trillion U.S. government, and two widely accepted candidates for President, aggressively undermine and obstruct our county's difficult and deadly on-going war to defeat the enemy that killed 3,000 innocent civilians in cold blood. Nor are we alone in this perception.
Quin Hillyer writes today in "The American Spectator" about the first anniversary "of what might be the most craven public statement by a wartime elected leader in the history of the United States." Democrat Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, said, "I believe ... this war is lost."
President Bush's "surge" in American troops in Iraq had barely begun, but Reid's mind was already made up. A week later, blind to facts, heedless of his effect on troop morale, and perfectly content to encourage the enemy, this corrupt, incompetent Nevada hack repeated his statement and called the nation's Commander in Chief "a liar." Reid never said this about frat-boy President Bill Clinton, who was disbarred for lying to a court under oath. Millions of loyal, patriotic American soldiers gave their lives to make Harry Reid possible. He must think they're pretty stupid.
George Bush's surge has worked brilliantly, and the war in Iraq is all but won. What are we to make of the leaders of a major political party who so eagerly offer aid and comfort to the enemy? And of their campaign contributors, like George Soros? And of the people who vote them into office? It is true, not mere rhetoric, to call them fools and traitors.
Hillyer concludes that the Left's attitude "can be described only as a potentially deadly pathology." Democrats are so beyond reason on so many issues, even so beyond common sense, that they appear collectively unbalanced. Yet our future may be in their hands. Normal citizens may well be negative and bitter at the prospect.
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We're reminded that on April 1st, San Francisco's City Council decreed a 48-hour moratorium on murder. People thought this was an April Fool's joke. But no.
San Francisco's active mobsters read this feel-good ordinance to mean that cops would be directing traffic rather than patrolling, and seized the opportunity to even old scores. The murder rate quadrupled. This kind of thinking, beyond parody, is what we look forward to if Clinton or Obama lie their way into the white House this fall.
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