Pelosi basically doesn’t care if there is genocide in Iraq or not
I’ve often thought of liberals as long on heart (a sincere complement) but short on brains (a sad reality). Now I’m beginning to wonder about the heart part. According to this piece on Politico Nancy Pelosi says Iraq is a failure.
Should those not be white flags behind Pelosi?
Really? World War II would have been a failure, too, had we left after the Battle of the Bulge. German concentration camps would have remained factories of death and the war lost not because of a failure of our troops but because of a failure of the hearts of those at home.
In the piece she says our troops “deserve better than the policy of a war without end.” And what do the Iraqis deserve? Mass graves without end? If we leave before true stability occurs we very likely look into another such abyss as the holocaust or killing fields where mass numbers of people die at the hands of barbarous monsters.
So where is the heart for Iraqis? Do liberals say they should suck it up and just get the job done? Oh, would that they felt that way about the so-called poor here. Shouldn’t they suck it up and get jobs and off welfare? Oh, no- it’s okay to redistribute the wealth of others in a war on poverty “without end” but to heck with Iraqis facing a real genocide. Again I ask, where is the heart in that?
No, Pelosi is wrong. Just because this arch liberal has called it quits doesn’t make Iraq a failure. Only her actions that may (but hopefully will not) end the just fight for liberty for Iraq will make it a failure.
Iraq can be - and will be if we but keep our courage- a glittering jewel in the crown of democracy.
Or we can abandon Iraq to become once again a bloody hole in the nightmare of tyranny and genocide.
February 11th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
That is a good point. I care about the poor even if Mr. OBryant does not. But that is a good question. What about the genocide that is a real possibility if we withdraw early? We invaded their country to put an end to Hussian. But if we leave now and allow another like him rule it could make things even worse for Iraq. I think caring about people should not be limited to only easy cases. It’s simple to give up a bit of your pay to help the less fortunate but it takes guts to actually risk your life to make somebodys life better.