Lt. Col. Ralph Peters gives this timely view in the New York Post of the latest Congressional effort to end the war in Iraq the hard way: by deliberately losing it.
THE 'QUIT IRAQ' CAUCUS:
By RALPH PETERS
July 11, 2007 --
EVEN as our troops make serious progress against al-Qaeda-in-Iraq and other extremists, Congress - including Republican members - is sending the terrorists a message: "Don't lose heart, we'll save you!"
Iraq's a mess. Got it. The Bush administration has made so many mistakes I stopped counting a year ago. But we've finally got a general in Baghdad - Dave Petraeus - who's doing things right. Iraqi politicians are still disgracing themselves, but our troops are killing America's enemies - with the help of our former enemies.
Al-Qaeda-in-Iraq is suffering a humiliating defeat, as fellow Sunni Muslims turn against the fanatics and help them find the martyrdom they advertise. Yet for purely political reasons - next year's elections - cowards on Capitol Hill are spurning the courage of our troops on the ground.
The frantic political gamesmanship in Congress would nauseate a ghoul. Pols desperate for any cover and concealment they can get have dragged the Iraq Study Group plan from the grave.
Masterminded by former Secretary of State Jim "Have Your Hugged Your Saudi Prince Today?" Baker, the report is a blueprint for a return to yesteryear's dictator-smooching policy (which helped create al Qaeda - thanks, Jimbo!).
That Baker report reminds me of cheap horror films where the zombies just keep coming back - except that zombies retain a measure of integrity.
But if Republicans are rushing to desert our troops and spit on the graves of heroes, the Democratic Party at least has been consistent - they've supported our enemies from the start, undercutting our troops and refusing to explain in detail what happens if we flee Iraq.
So I'll tell you what happens: massacres. And while I have nothing against Shia militiamen and Sunni insurgents killing each other 24/7, the overwhelming number of victims will be innocent women, children and the elderly.
Bosnia? That was just rough-necking at recess compared to what Islamist fanatics and ethnic beasts will do. Given that Senate Majority Misleader Harry Reid and Commissar of the House Nancy Pelosi won't tell us what they foresee after we quit, let me lay it out:
* After suffering a strategic defeat, al-Qaeda-in-Iraq comes back from the dead (those zombies again . . .) and gets to declare a strategic victory over the Great Satan.
* Iran establishes hegemony over Iraq's southern oil fields and menaces the other Persian Gulf producers. (Sorry, Comrade Gore, even that Toyota Prius needs some gasoline . . . )
* Our troops will have died in vain. Of course, that doesn't really matter to much of anyone in Washington, Democrat or Republican. So we'll just write off those young Americans stupid enough to join the military when they could've ducked out the way most members of Congress did.
* A slaughter of the innocents - so many dead, the bodies will never be counted.
But I hope somebody tries to count the dead after our Congress kills them. As for those on the left who sanctimoniously set out rows of shabby combat boots to "teach" the rest of us the cost of war, I fully expect them to put out displays of women's slippers and children's shoes to show the world how many innocents died when they "brought our troops home now." (Note to the demonstrators - better start bulk-ordering those slippers and booties now.)
I hate the long-mismanaged mess in Iraq. I wish there were a sensible, decent way to get out that wouldn't undercut our security and produce massive innocent casualties. But there isn't. Not now. And, like it or not, we have a moral responsibility as well as practical interests in refusing to surrender to the butchers in Iraq.
This has been the Bush-Cheney War. But it will only be fair to call the carnage after we run away the "Reid-Pelosi Massacres."
Ralph Peters' new book, "Wars of Blood and Faith," goes on sale next week.
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Time for a Military Blog Surge!
If you don't like this outcome—if you don't want to live through another period of American retreat, defeatism, and malaise—you can do something about it. You have proven that you can. As Reid puts his proposals up for a vote, light up those Senate switchboards again. Let your senators know that you expect them to stand firm and to refuse to give the Islamofascists a victory in Iraq.
Or have you, too, become so overwhelmed by a false sense of inevitable failure that you think we can't defeat our enemies abroad, and all we can do is to wall ourselves within a defensive bunker?
If the grassroots do not stand up to oppose defeat in Iraq and to demand a stronger stand against Iran, then what message are you sending? The editorial cartoonists Cox & Forkum have brilliantly summed up that message in a biting cartoon which criticizes the right for acting as if Mexicans are the biggest threat we face, when Iran and its minions are on the march. The humor bites because there's truth to it.
If you think Cox & Forkum's cartoon is unfair, you can do something about that, too. Prove them wrong.
That's my challenge to everyone who rallied the grassroots so successfully against the immigration bill—the Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannities and Hugh Hewitts and everyone else—and it is a challenge to their grassroots readers and listeners as well. Be as passionate about opposing defeat in the War on Terrorism as you were about walling off the border. If you summon the same energy, you can achieve the same result.
You have the power. Use it.
The Coming Blog Surge?
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