” …Because even more than they fear terrorist bombs, the pro-democracy forces within Iraq and Afghanistan fear American withdrawal. Every speech threatening withdrawal is a bomb going off in Baghdad, killing, not people, but the will to resist the tyrants.
Bin Laden predicted it. The Democratic Party in America is following his script exactly.”
Dan:
I agree, talk of withdrawl encourages the terrorists. But are you willing to acknowledge that talk of staying also plays right into the hands of OBL himself?
I don’t have it at my fingertips, but there have been several stories this past year about how tough talk about staying until victory and the good vs evil talk is precisely what he wanted.
The fact that both parties are playing right into their hands shows us what a bad spot we’re in, because if we leave we’re weak and lack the will, and if we stay we’re crusaders without the ability to defeat an insurgency in a protracted war.
If we could double our forces there, we could beat them. But no one considers tihs a real possibility. So we can’t stay and we can’t leave…
R