Friday, September 01, 2006

Democrats clueless about history

Democrats are in a tizzy. President Bush has finally screwed up the courage to call the pan-Islamo-terror-fascists what they are, although he prefers fewer modifiers referring to them simply as Islamic fascists. Then Defense Secretary Rumsfeld goes out and gives America a desperately needed history lesson.

Democrats knocked each other over to get to microphone to say that the president’s remarks were insensitive and they were…to pan-Islamo-terror-fascists who would like nothing better than to slide under the radar for another couple of decades. These people have been raising hell with the West since about 700 AD. They respond to one thing – force. When they get slapped down they crawl back into their hole for a decade or two and then resurface.

President Bush, for all of his other faults, has gotten the basic dynamic of dealing Islamo-terror-fascists right. Root them out and kill them. Plus, he has taken on a bold strategy to deal with the root of the problem – spreading democracy throughout the Middle East. This is a more dangerous problem for the Muslim satraps and dictators that populate the area than a nuclear weapon. If successful, and we will be if we don’t blink, domestic populations will cause the fall of the house of Saud, Assad, Mubarak etc. not the Great Satan America.

When Rumsfeld recalled the history of Europe before WWII, the kind of history that used to be taught in public schools before “Heather has two mommies” took over the curriculum, Democrats didn’t rush to microphone to say Rumsfeld’s account Europe’s appeasement of Nazis and fascists before the war was wrong. They claimed that pan-Islamo-terror-fascists were different. They said that diplomacy was the key. They do not explain how one would negotiate with a person like Osama bin Laden. In arguing that the ITFs are NOT as great a threat to our way of life as the Nazis were, Democrats seem to make Rumsfeld’s point for him.

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