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Democrats: A Prevent Defense?No 4th down in war You have a one touchdown lead. Your team just pounded the other team back to their 5 yard line. There’s one minute left. They have to go 95 yards to score. So what do you do? You shut down their offense with a crushing defense and win the game, right? Well, not if you are a Democrat. In the war against terrorism, the bad guys struck first. Over the last 30 years, the list of terrorist incidents has grown long: -1979 Iran hostage crisis -1983 Beirut Embassy bombing -1984 Awkar US Embassy bombing -1985 TWA Flight 847 Hijacked -1985- Achille Lauro hijacked -1986 TWA flight 840 bombing -1986-Berlin disco bombing -1987 Rome US Embassy bombing -1988 Naples USO club bombing -1988 Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie Scotland -1993 First World Trade Center bombing -1993 CIA Headquarters attack, McLean Virginia -1995 Oklahoma City Murrah building bombing -1995 Two US diplomats killed,, Pakistan -1996 Khobar Towers bombing -1998 Embassy bombings, Tanzania and Kenya -1999 Millennium plot (foiled) -2000 USS Cole attached -2001 World Trade Center, Pentagon and United Airlines flight 93 That’s a long list of patience. And the bad guys scored a lot of points. But finally, an American President with guts fought back, as George Bush pushed into the Middle East, smashed the Taliban, crushed Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, convinced Moammar Khadafi to give up his entire and surprisingly advanced weapons program, “inspired” a dozen smaller Middle East and Persian states into an attitude adjustment towards the United States, and successfully isolated the two great Middle East terrorist threats, Iran and Syria. In football parlance, America now has the ball on the terrorists 5 yard line, threatening to score. Makes sense to smash it down their throats, doesn’t it? But Democrats, in their perpetual geopolitical naïvete, have split into two camps. One wants to slowly withdrawing from the Middle East, falling back into a “prevent defense.” The other Democrats want to pull out now, giving the ball to the terrorists and withdrawing back to our own 5 yard line for a goal line stand. Wonder what would happen to a football coach who devised such plans? Each strategy essentially snatches defeat from the jaws of victory with three obvious strategic blunders. First, you are condemned to perpetual defense. That guarantees that, Second, without a clock that ends the game, the enemy will eventually score. Only the frequency and scale of horror is in question. And Third, if you never play offense, the game goes on forever. There is no 4th down in war. Without offense, you can never win. And forget the pacifism of Gandhi. We aren’t up against the British, who had shame, decency and the pragmatic foresight to understand a colony of a billion people can’t be controlled forever. This modern enemy not only murders men, women, children and babies without hesitation. they truly believe it will get them to heaven. And while they are certainly misguided at least, they aren’t stupid. They fight well. And they definitely know how to use the left-wing lapdog worldwide media to their advantage. The terrorists get a lot of yardage out of a little carnage here, a CNN reporter there and a New York Times headline. Now, a few months away from elections. Democrats are attempting to convince voters the war hasn’t been fought “properly,” and therefore we should go home. But the question America must ask is not whether the war in Iraq has been a perfect success. Instead, we must ask ourselves whether it’s better to have an imperfect war against terrorism vs. a perfect retreat. Infamous Democrat strategist James Carville certainly understood this when he declared, “It’s hard for you to talk with my fist in your face.” Too bad today’s Democrats don’t understand the geopolitical application of this concept. In what is becoming the first truly world war in history, America’s liberals are, for debatable reasons, repeating the same naïve mistake Europeans committed in 1938, believing appeasement and retreat might placate a vicious bloodthirsty enemy. Forty million victims later, the “prevent defense” strategy clearly failed. Today, a better strategy to lose this war doesn’t exist, unless we all buy Korans and beat our wives into wearing burkas. When it comes to securing the nation and winning wars, there is no serious debate among serious people. You must win. You have to win every day. And you can have no mercy upon your enemies. That means hunting down the bad people and killing them. That pretty much sums up the Bush philosophy. Has it worked? Consider this: On September 11th, 2001, the front on the War Against Terrorism was at Church Street and Vesey, New York City. Today, it’s Baghdad. And personally, I prefer crushing the enemy where they stand, rather than where I stand.
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