http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18468
Surrender By Any Other Name...
by Ann Coulter
How did we go from winning the war in Iraq to losing overnight? Was this
decided by the same committee that changed "Peking" to "Beijing"?
These word changes are a fortiori evidence that liberals are part of a
conspiracy. On what date did "horrible" and "actress" vanish from the
English language to be replaced with "horrific" and "actor"? Who decided
that? (Meanwhile, I'm still writing "Puff Daddy" in my nightly dream
journal
when everybody else has started calling him "Diddy.")
When did "B.C." (before Christ) and "A.D." (anno Domini, "in the year of
the
Lord") get replaced with "BCE" (before the common era) and "CE" (common
era)? "Withdrawal" is "redeployment," "liberal" is "progressive," and
"traitorous" is "patriotic."
These new linguistic conventions -- like going from "winning" to "losing"
in
Iraq -- simply spread like an invisible bacterial invasion.
To be sure, last month the Democrats did win a narrow majority in Congress
for the first time in more than a decade. And it cannot be denied that for
the past 50 years, Democrats have orchestrated humiliating foreign policy
defeats for America. So it is understandable that some might interpret
their
midterm gains as a mandate for another humiliating defeat.
But that's not what the Democrats told Americans when they were running
for
office. To the contrary, they claimed to be gun-totin' hawks. A shockingly
high number of Democratic candidates this year actually fought in wars.
And
not just the war on poverty, either -- real wars, against men with guns.
It was a specific plan of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
chair
Rep. Rahm Emanuel to fake out the voters by recruiting anti-war veterans
to
run against Republicans. (And when did "chairman" become "chair"?)
To the credit of the voters -- especially the American Legion and VFW --
the
Democrats didn't fool enough Americans to even match the average midterm
gains for the party out of power.
But the point is: You can't run as a phony patriot and then claim your
victory is a mandate for surrender. That would be like awarding yourself
undeserved Purple Hearts and then pretending to throw them over the White
House wall in protest. No, that's not fair -- nothing could be as
contemptible as throwing someone else's medals on the ground in protest.
Is it the re****t of the "Iraq Surrender Group" that suddenly caused
everyone
to say we're losing?
The ISG re****t was about what you'd expect if the ladies from "The View"
were asked to come up with a victory plan for Iraq. We need to ask Syria
to
tell Hamas to stop calling for the destruction of Israel. Duh! "Dear
Hamas,
Do you like killing Jews, or do you LIKE killing Jews? Check yes or no."
Most of the esteemed members of the ISG were last seen on the "Dead or
Alive?" Web site. Vernon Jordan's most recent claim to fame was getting
Monica Lewinsky a job at Revlon when she was threatening Bill Clinton with
the truth. He's going to figure out an honorable way to get out of Iraq?
We're still trying to figure out a six-part test from some decision Sandra
Day O'Connor wrote back in 1984, but now she's going to tell us what to do
in Iraq.
Have things changed on the ground in Iraq? Are our troops being routed?
Hardly. The number of U.S. fatalities has gone from a high of 860 deaths
in
2004 to 845 in 2005, to 695 through November of this year. If the Islamic
fascists double their rate of killing Americans in the next month, there
will still be fewer American fatalities in Iraq this year than in the
previous two years.
Admittedly, it would be a little easier to track our progress in Iraq if
the
Pentagon would tell us how many of them we're killing, but apparently our
Pentagon is too spooked by the insurgents posing as civilians to mention
the
deaths of our enemies.
Moreover, it might seem churlish to mention the number of Islamic lunatics
we've killed during the holy month of Ramadan. Half the time we do
anything
to them, it's "the holy month of Ramadan." It's always Ramadan. When on
Earth is Ramadan over?
It's true that no one anticipated that al-Qaida sympathizers would stream
into Iraq to fight the Great Satan after Saddam fled to a spider hole, but
that's because everyone expected al-Qaida to be fighting us here.
Like "Peking," that's something else we can't say anymore: the amazing
absence of another 9/11-style terrorist attack in the past five years. The
heart of the insurgency in Iraq is, by definition, composed of Islamic
terrorists who hate the Great Satan, own an overnight bag and are willing
to
travel to kill Americans. But don't worry: The Iraq Surrender Group feels
sure they won't come here if we pull out of Iraq.
If absolutely nothing changed in Iraq over the next few years -- if it
didn't continue to get better and if the savages never lost heart (I'm
assuming they subscribe to "TimesSelect") -- by 2010, 6,000 brave American
troops will have died to prevent another 9/11 terrorist attack on American
soil for a decade.
If that's a war Americans think we're "losing," Osama bin Laden was right:
We are a paper tiger.
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