Analysis of Iraq War

"It is historically inaccurate to say the war was cooked up by Bush alone" (Victor Davis Hanson). 

Key point: "One can blame almost anyone, but one must not invent facts to support an argument." 

Which is what Democrats are trying to do, now that their president has given away the fragile, hard-fought peace that so many died for.

 "Looking Back at Iraq," by Victor Davis Hanson (historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University).

Islamization of France: Don't Think it Can't Happen in America

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

 ~Edmund Burke

We've been watching this happen now for quite some time. 

People think it can't happen here.  

I pray they're right. But this article provides a glimpse of how it can happen. Calling people who are concerned about radical Islam "Islamaphobes," for one. Marginalizing of those who try to speak out. Viewing anti-semitism as "unhealthy"rather than evil. 

All of which contributes to a climate of fear. 

This is how it starts. To express concern becomes intolerance. Intolerance begets hatred, hatred begets oppression, oppression begets fear, fear begets silence, silence begets great evil. 

France Submits to Islam, by Guy Millière (Gatestone Institute, May 12, 2014).

Number of French Jews Emigrating to Israel Rises, by Dan Bilefsky (New York Times,  June 20, 2014).

French Jews Leave for Israel in Increasing Numbers (Associated Press, June 19, 2014).

Stop Rewriting History, Democrats

Iraq is back in the news, and not surprisingly, so is George W. Bush. Anything happening in the Middle East today is Bush's fault. 

Frankly, I'm weary of the way the Dems try to re-write history. 

In case they've forgotten that many of their key players were worried about Saddam Hussein back in the late 90's and supported George Bush's attempts to topple him in the early 2000's, here's a small refresher.




Oh, and while we're on the subject, let's not forget that as recently as 2010, the Obama administration was quite pleased with the way things were going in Iraq. Mr. Biden again: 





Peter Wehner, writing in Commentary Magazine, says the following: 

A fair-minded reading of the facts, I think, shows that when Mr. Obama was sworn in, the Iraq war had more or less been won. Things were fragile to be sure. But the errors that were made during the occupation of Iraq following the fall of Saddam, which were extremely costly, were corrected in 2007. That was when President Bush made what is in my estimation his most impressive decision. In the face of enormous political opposition, with the nation weary of the war, Mr. Bush implemented a new counterinsurgency strategy, dubbed the “surge” and led by the estimable General David Petraeus. It resulted in startling gains.  

By the time the surge ended in 2008, violence in Iraq had dropped to the lowest level since the first year of the war. Sectarian killings had dropped by 95 percent. By 2009, U.S. combat deaths were extremely rare. (In December of that year there were no American combat deaths in Iraq.) Iraq was on the mend. Even Barack Obama, who opposed the surge every step of the way, conceded in September 2008 that it had succeeded in reducing violence “beyond our wildest dreams.”

"What Kind of Iraq Did Obama Inherit?" (Peter Wehner, Commentary Magazine, June 19, 2014). 

Enough, Democrats. Enough of the lying, enough of the blaming, enough of the dissembling, enough of the petty politics, enough of the demonizing. Your party and your leader are taking America down a terrible path. If George W. Bush made mistakes in his attempts to deal with unspeakable evil, at least he was man enough to face them and courageous enough to correct them. 

Now it's your turn. Man up, Mr. Obama. If necessary, ask the good people of the other party to help you and advise you. The time to stop playing politics is now because the evil menacing us today eclipses the evil Mr. Bush faced back then. It's time to set aside your ego and your narcissism and your arrogance. The future of our country, and perhaps even the world, are at stake.