Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Who is ready to fight the long war?

Well boys and girls, we have good news and we have bad news. First, the good news: Captured al Qaeda letters in Iraq indicate that AQI is on its butt. The London Times notes:

“Al-Qaeda in Iraq faces an ‘extraordinary crisis’. Last year's mass defection of ordinary Sunnis from al-Qaeda to the US military ‘created panic, fear and the unwillingness to fight’. The terrorist group's security structure suffered ‘total collapse’.

“These are the words not of al-Qaeda's enemies but of one of its own leaders in Anbar province — once the group's stronghold. They were set down last summer in a 39-page letter seized during a US raid on an al-Qaeda base near Samarra in November.”


Al Qaeda’s assessment of its own position doesn’t square with Dem House Speaker Nance Pelosi who continues to root for and claim a AQI victory in Iraq – or at least a Bush failure. One can imagine the Speaker on the Phone to her allies in Iraq telling them quit with the negative vibes.

So what’s the bad news? The bad news is that Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff notes:


"The great weapon they have is persistence and patience, and the one weakness that we have is the tendency to lose patience and become complacent. It strikes me as hard to accept that anybody would believe the threat is over. There is nothing these terrorists are doing or saying that could lead a reasonable person to believe that they have somehow lost interest. Our biggest challenge is making sure we do not drop our guard because time passes.”

So if you accept the good news, you should probably consider the bad and keep your guard up and the pressure on. Chertoff is right. The Islamo-terror-fascists have long memories and a sense of time that would confound most Americans who get impatient waiting two minutes for microwave popcorn.

By contrast, the ITF are still waiting patiently for an opportunity to avenge the naval defeat and beheading of Muezzenzade Ali Pasha at Lepanto in 1751 by Pope Pius’ boys.

And that is why the right the wing of the Rep Party ought to get over itself and knock off the talk about supporting the Dems in the fall.

I’m sure Barack Obama is a nice guy. That is something that cannot be said about his chief rivals in the Dem and Rep Parties. But he is totally unqualified to lead a nation at war, whether the people of that nation know they are at war or not. His primary strategy in any war situation would be an appeal to “hope and change”. The hope we’d get is that the government will pay for the prayer rugs we’ll all need and the change will be to a Muslim theocracy.

The Shrillda Beast would not be much better. She would be slow to react as she polled and triangulated the most popular position on every issue for her second term and legacy.

McCain is the only one of three that will hit the ITF square in mouth at the first opportunity.

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