Wednesday, May 09, 2007

The good news about surrender

What about a plan B if the surge fails? No one, to include the war’s staunchest supporters, has mentioned any such thing. Right now all of our Middle East security eggs are in the surge basket. It seems to me, if Iraq is the central front in the war on terror as al Qaida claims, we ought to have some idea of what comes next. I think we all know what’s next – or if you’re a Lib what should be happening now – retreat and surrender.

The consequences of that surrender will be many and far reaching. But in every dark cloud there is a bit of silver. When the jihadis take over the Iraqi oil fields and US and/or UN sanctions are imposed on that oil, the price of oil will to skyrocket. That may be the straw that breaks the environmental strangle hold on nuclear power and oil exploration in the US.

Even as the Lib congress begins investigating the oil companies for high summer gas prices for what seems like the 40th summer in row, when Iraq goes jihadi, $4 gas will look pretty good. When American’s howl about $6-8 gas, pols will be forced to stop supplying our enemies with petrodollars that are then used to blow us up. They will also be forced to turn a deaf ear to enviro kooks who would rather see our economy destroyed than one tree cut or a single owl disturbed. Only when we decide to do what's in our best interest as a country will we begin to use our own energy resources – nuclear, coastal and Alaskan oil, and coal. That dynamic alone will cause more disruption to the jihadis than 10 Army divisions.

When Libs get their way and we abandon Iraq, Iran will be emboldened and step up pressure on Israel with more Hezbollah attacks. But Israel, who has a better sense of survival than we do, will not be influenced by MSM bias this time around. Without American support, Israel will go after Hezbollah full force. They will not be deterred this time around by feckless American pols who never finish anything they start or UN bureaucrats who’d just as soon see jihadis wipe Israel off the map as deal with the "Israel" problem again and again. This time around Israel will wage real war.

The American military will again learn the lesson that democracies cannot hold a war footing for more than 4 or 5 years. The pentagon will demand a sledge hammer for every conflict – even ones that could be settled with a screwdriver. Collateral damage will be second to a quick, bloodless – for the US anyway – victory. The MSM will lament the loss of civilian life. The American people will shrug. At least the war was over fast.

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