Not so very long ago, the democrats were telling us, that Iraq was a mistake, the real locus of the whole thing was Afghanistan. Supposedly, they supported our actions in Afghanistan. Well, now their policy of “cut and run” has been extended to Afghanistan:
A few congressional Democrats go so far as suggesting that the Pentagon should pull out of Afghanistan now, while others say that troop withdrawal will be addressed after the military is out of Iraq.
Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), a senior defense authorizer, wants the U.S. out of Afghanistan immediately, calling operations there “futile” in trying to effect political change in a country with a tangled history.
As the title suggests, this was very predictable. Indeed, it was a logical on its face for them to support our actions in Afghanistan, while complaining about our actions in Iraq. Captain Ed notes the same story, and suggests further:
Unsurprisingly, John Murtha may lead this charge as well. The Hill quotes Murtha as saying that “we would have been out of Afghanistan” by now if we had not invaded Iraq. I’m not sure how Murtha figures this. Does he mean we would have invaded Pakistan had we not invaded Iraq? We had plenty of opportunity to do that between November 2001 and March 2003, but few would have supported that proposal, which would have lit the entirety of south Asia on fire.
The Taliban fled into Pakistan. The only way we would have beaten them is to cross the border and conduct war throughout Waziristan. Such an attack could very easily have led to a nuclear exchange with Pevez Musharraf. Is that what Murtha endorses now?
He is correct; it would have led to precisely that. The old adage about shying away from a fight, being the surest way of getting into one, raises its head, here. Ed concludes:
The real story is that Democrats do not have the stomach to fight wars to victory. They will eventually start undermining the war in Afghanistan the way they have in Iraq, issuing defeatist analyses to prove that we’re losing, that America cannot defeat its enemies, and that we should admit defeat and retreat to Okinawa, or perhaps even further away this time. This time, the Democrats couldn’t even get past six months in power before their senior leadership started running up the white flag against the “real” terrorists.
Indeed. Like I said, gang, predictable.
Others blogging this one:
Power Line, Outside The Beltway, Blue Crab Boulevard and Gateway Pundit
Tags: Afghanistan, BitsBlog, Democrats
