Progressive War Hawks
By
J.D. Pendry
JDPendry.com
In June 2006, I wrote about the
Axis of Idiots. It seems now that the axis has
turned from war critics into war hawks. Yes, quite a
political turn around. A greater illustration of
Washington insanity cannot be found.
America’s modern political approach to war has not
resulted in total victory since the end of World War
II. It is because war, the new American way, has
little to do with war fighting and much to do with
politics. The outrage in all of this is that
Washington politicians of all breeds willingly send
America’s sons and daughters off to fight and die
for what is always billed as defending freedom or
people seeking freedom. That was mostly true in
Korea. That or at least to halt the expansion of
communism, or however it is you care to describe the
government of Red China’s North Korean puppet state.
It may have also been true at the outset of Vietnam,
a focus quickly lost to Washington politics. In both
cases, we lost because we settled for less than
total victory. Maybe it was because we had muddled
objectives that did not involve destroying the
enemy’s will to continue the fight. We [the American
people] allowed ourselves to be pulled into the
Middle Eastern Wars with the same mindset. We were
spreading freedom. Too many Americans have died. Did
they die defending freedom? Or was it for
wrongheaded political agendas? Questions most
Americans would rather not answer. It is called
denial.
Presidential Candidate Barack Obama said our troops
were “[in Afghanistan] just air raiding villages and
killing civilians”, and that “[in Iraq] We ended up
launching a war that should have never been
authorized and should have never been waged and to
which we have now spent $400 billion and has seen
over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans
wasted.” He has not had much to say about that since
he took charge of the wars, except to leave Iraq to
Iran and inter-tribal warfare and our Soldiers in
Afghanistan to operate under rules of engagement
equivalent to fratricide. His foreign policy that
believes in “moderate” Islam, much like his
predecessor Jimmy Carter and too many others did and
still do, has set the Middle East a blaze. The
progressives have fulfilled their prophesy of
turning the Middle Eastern wars into just another
Vietnam quagmire where America only comes out the
loser and where many of the Soldiers lost or maimed
were barely 10 years old when the conflicts started.
The parallels are eerie and sickening.
Now, led by Genghis John Kerry, the war hawk, we are
about to engage Syria – or someone or something in
Syria. This is the same communist sympathizer who
chucked fake medals over the Whitehouse fence and
called his comrades in arms murderers at a Ted
Kennedy sponsored Congressional charade. Genghis
John has not changed much in what he thinks about
today’s warriors: “And there is no reason… that
young American soldiers need to be going into the
homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing
kids and children, you know, women, breaking sort of
the customs of the – of – the historical customs,
religious customs.” And his perspective on the
quality of our Soldiers, “You know, education, if
you make the most of it, if you study hard and you
do your homework, and you make an effort to be
smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you
get stuck in Iraq.”
Now these great American and military loving
patriots want to take us once more to war. But we
are not talking about actual war here, or so they
want us to believe. But we must once again punish an
evil dictator who allegedly gassed his own people.
Maybe so, maybe not. The evidence is not in, but
these same great warriors wanted no part of dealing
with the Butcher of Iraq who gassed many thousands
during the Iran –Iraq war and thousands of Kurds in
his own country. In fact, they called it Bush’s
illegal war. Like Vietnam, it was a war that Genghis
John was for before he was against it.
There will be no boots on the ground, we are
promised. Just a million dollar missile here and
there. We will punish Assad like he was an Aspirin
factory in Sudan. You probably believe that if you
have an Obama phone. There will be boots on the
ground, maybe not overtly, but they will be there
just as they were in Libya. Once we take out Assad,
and that is the objective regardless of what you
hear, what becomes of the chemical weapons? How do
we secure them? Boots on the ground is the only way
to do that. If the objective is to stop the use of
chemical weapons, then the objective must be to
capture and destroy the chemical weapons. Otherwise,
the objective must be to tip the balance of power in
favor of one side or the other most likely putting
radical Islam in charge of Syria adding it to the
axis of Islamic powers of Turkey and Iran that will
challenge Egypt, Saudi Arabia and others for control
of the Islamic caliphate. While Russia and China
side with the eventual winner. We will then have
chosen sides for the next World War all thanks to
the foreign policy of our President.
Senator Harry Reid, who said this about Iraq, “I
believe myself that the secretary of state,
secretary of defense and — you have to make your own
decisions as to what the president knows — (know)
this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing
anything…”, assured us that an attack on Syria will
win approval in the Senate.
Congress. Progressives are wagging your dog. Mr.
President. Not one more American life to defend
Islam. Not a single one.
(J.D. Pendry is a retired Army Command Sergeant
Major who writes for
Random House. HE IS QUITE
ELOQUENT, and he seldom beats around the bush!!!)