They Hate Us Because We Know the Truth

Ever since 9/12/2001, when Americans saw rank and file Arab Muslims dancing in the streets at the horror of the attacks in New York and Washington, liberals have asked the question, “Why do they hate us?” Presumably they were asking the rhetorical of Muslims (incorrectly labeled Muslim extremists). The answer to that question is obvious to anyone with a modicum of common sense. Because their religion compels them to hate Jews and Christians and the countries that represent those groups. But that isn’t what my post is about today. There is another insidious group that hates us, our allies.

I suppose that the ill-will that the EU has toward America has its roots in jealousy of our successes over the last 230 years. All the countries of the world seem to measure themselves by an American yardstick. Whether it is sports, politics, or economics, they appear to base their self image on a gauge against America. But that doesn’t explain the current hatred toward the US.

The European elite have raised their snobbish noses at the American war against terror since the outset. They, along with a pliant liberal American media, view President Bush as an illiterate cowboy, bent on proving that he’s the fastest gun in the west. Remember French and German opposition to the war in Iraq? Despite overwhelming evidence that Iraq was a state sponsor of terrorism, they wailed about the ‘unnecessary’ military action. Only after the invasion did we discover that France and Germany were lining their leaders’ pockets with black market oil money. And it was a huge mistake to emphasize WMD’s as the reason for the invasion. It was sexy, easy to explain and made good headlines. It was decidedly more difficult to show the then circumstantial evidence of state sponsored terror.

Today Victor Davis Hanson explores the audacity of the Iranians to perpetuate an act of war against a civil society. He rightly explains that after the cold war, the EU bought into the science fiction ideal of no more war. They assumed that all countries, groups, sects, and entities were rational thinkers and would submit to reason, if it were properly presented. Now they are faced with the reality that not everyone is a political animal that will acknowledge a reasonable argument.

Details are emerging that the Brits surrendered to a force that they far outnumbered. (via Michelle Malkin) I’m reminded of the scene in the movie “Braveheart” in which Robert the Bruce is arguing with his father over joining Wallace in the fight against King Edward. The elder Bruce tells his son not to be enticed by the bravado of William Wallace. Don’t take a position for or against a cause. He says something to the effect of, “our ability to compromise is what makes us noble.”

Europe has been living in a movie land fantasy world of nobility. Even as its Navy seamen have been seized by a government devoid of any concern for other nation states, Britain wrings its hands in collective agony at the “outrageous” Iranian actions. And that demonstrates exactly why Europe hates America.

George Bush understands something that Ronald Reagan understood, you can’t negotiate with terrorists. Insanity does not comprehend reason or compromise. Therefore, we must deal with them in terms that they do understand. That is why we fight in Afghanistan and Iraq. That is why we must continue to meet them in their backyard instead of ours. That is why the political posturing of the Democrat Party (Democratic is an adjective to describe a process. It is not a noun) is a threat to the security of the United States of America. George W. Bush is the Commander in Chief. Congress is not. The desires of the liberal wing of the defeatist party to seize that duty are despicable and border on treason.

Four Great Columns

William F. Buckley
Thomas Sowell
George Will
Walter E. Williams

Four great minds of conservative ideals wrote brilliant columns this week. Of course, that’s to be expected. I can only hope to someday be as eloquent.

As a bonus, Maja Rushie was on a roll about the ludicrous statements by Chuck Hagel. Check it out.

No, Now Go Away Before I Taunt You a Second Time

Yesterday President Bush joined the rest of America in laughing at congress. It kind of reminded me of the TV commercials with the cell phone companies. You have the one really cool company and the four nerdy companies that get together to stand up to him and tell him they’re going to be cool just like him. It doesn’t work. Well, the current battle between the White House is just like that commercial.

Howie got Nancy, Harry, Chuck and company together and they all decided that they were going to get the cool bully Bush. They sent a bill to Bush that essentially said, “Quit or else!” Bush replied through his speech at the National Cattleman’s Beef Association convention. “No, now go away before I taunt you a second time.”

In lampooning congress, the president showed that he’s not going to let them manage the war from their posh offices on Capitol Hill. Accordingly, the nerdy Dems were upset.

“Why doesn’t he get real with what’s going on in the world?” Harry Reid whined. Um Harry, are you talking about your investments in Las Vegas real estate? I think that the president would rather not get involved with reputed underworld figures or people being investigated for bribery. I know that doesn’t seem to bother you but the president would rather not go there.

Then Nancy Pelosi chimed in, “…we will have legislation that will give him every dollar he asks for for our troops and more, but with accountability.” Mrs. Pelosi, do you mean you want to have him be accountable like you are in your hiring practices? Or would you rather the story that you support illegal immigration to go away?

Of course, no hysterical Democrat screed would be complete without Howard Dean. "He should also stop ignoring the will of the American people, put partisanship aside and work with Congress to fix his failed policies in Iraq." Mr. Dean is an authority on the will of the American people. It just never seems to actually be how he portrays it whenever he makes a public statement.

Mr. Bush responded to the cheap theatrics of the Democrats appropriately.

"Here's the bottom line: The House and Senate bills have too much pork, too many
conditions on our commanders, and an artificial timetable for withdrawal," Mr.
Bush said. "And I have made it clear for weeks, if either version comes to my
desk, I'm going to veto it.
It is also clear from the strong opposition in
both houses that my veto would be sustained. Yet Congress continues to pursue
these bills, and as they do, the clock is ticking for our troops in the field,"
he said.

The collective Democrat fly is open. It’s time they skulk away in embarrassment. Unfortunately, they are too busy being partisan Democrats to notice.

Michelle Malkin Goes Off

Another great article by MM. She gets it right almost every time.

268 Democrats Surrender in Iraq

Let’s be honest. Most of the visitors to this blog share a similar political viewpoint. I get a troll every now and then but for the most part, readers seem to be on the right side of the fence. Perhaps you are not one of those people. Maybe you can explain to me how the vote of the congress to set a

timetable for withdrawal is not a vote of surrender.

Sen Reid demonstrates the

proper way to surrender

Since winning the elections last fall, the Democrats have aggressively pushed to return to the Vietnam gameplan. The intent is to defund the war and force the President to order the troops out of Iraq. Vietnam was the high-water mark of the Democrats reign in the 70’s. Once Carter was elected, things started to go downhill and ended up with the losses of congress in ’94. The power hungry want to return to those days. I remember that those were the days in which the Democrats wanted to destabilize America for their own political gain. That has happened again this past week.

When she couldn’t twist enough arms to get the votes outright, Speaker Pelosi had to resort to bribery. We don’t know what kind of Godfatheresque conversations took place, but you can be assured that they happened. The question should be “Who was making the offers that couldn’t be refused?” Well Madam Surrender didn’t want to really take an official position against the war in Iraq because she realizes the consequences come November 2008. But her chattering constituency made an offer that she couldn’t refuse, vote to get out or you won’t be reelected.

The rest of the Democrats were no more eager to go on record as surrenderists but their thirst for pork was greater than their fear of losing in a year and eight months. Former speaker Tip O’Neill once said “…all politics is local.” The current crop of French-like surrenderers are counting on the pork buying the votes that they will need back home. I hope that the Republicans can once again make the elections a national election like in 1994.

But not to be outdone, the senate Dems also voted to surrender. Paul Morin, the commander of the American Legion, has it right when he says, “You can’t support the troops if you want them to cut and run.” The Dems came into power by criticizing the Republicans, who just didn’t want to lose the elections, without offering a real plan of their own. The Republicans will have to work twice as hard to get the truth of the Democrats surrender because they don’t have the propaganda tool of the MSM that the Democrat Party does. Conservatives have 20 months to get the message out and the people motivated to do something about it.

For a great satirical piece on this, check out FrankJ’s IMW today.

It Got a Little Windy Here Friday Night

We had a tornado Friday night. Thank you for the many e-mails asking if we were ok. Yes we are. I was watching the NCAA sweet 16 and caught a blurb about a tornado on the ground about 11 miles south of Clovis moving north at 35 mph. I live about 5 miles south of town so I called the base to see if it was on my side or not. It was. So I got the kids, some water, and the picture albums into the storm shelter. That was when the power went out. We were about two miles away from the funnel at that point.

I walked outside to see if I could see anything but it was too dark. Then it got dead calm. I ran into the house and down into the shelter. We have a great shelter. The people that built the house were apparently afraid of nuclear war so they dug a hole and buried a boxcar (like from a train) and covered it in three feet of concrete. Filtered air vents, water, and gas make it livable for as long as we have food.

Curiosity got the better of me so I walked over to our large picture window to see if I could see it. I know that’s not very bright but my redneck genes took over and I couldn’t stop myself. When the lightning flashed, I couldn’t see the funnel because it was the same color as the clouds. But when it was dark, the city lights back-lit it and we could see it clearly. Yes, I meant we. My kids had joined me. The conversation was something like:

“Get back in the basement. We don’t know for sure where it is. OOOH! Look at that!”

That was when we saw electrical transformers exploding about 4.5 miles away as the funnel hit them. We lost sight of the tornado after that. We’ve spent the next 3 days helping people clean up. The base let us have the day to go help and provided busses to get down there. About 450 people went. Every church in town is also helping. This town has always come together in a crisis and this is no exception. It’s going to take a while to return to normal though. The good news is that there was only one fatality, a 90 year woman trapped in her trailer.