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November 25, 2005
Jack Murtha, Sam Johnson, and the Fifth Column's Game Plan
Wiggins passed along an editorial that asks an excellent question — and answers it.
The question is: "Murtha? How About Sam Johnson?"
Congressman Sam Johnson (R-TX) has military credentials too. He served 29 years in the Air Force, flying combat missions in both the Korean and Vietnam wars, and spent 7 years in a Hanoi prison. Why does Murtha dominate the news and not Johnson?
The answer, of course, is that Johnson actually wants us to win the war. He understands why we absolutely have to win, and he can explain it quite eloquently by asking some questions of his own:
What would Iraq be like if the United States pulled out — allowing dangerous people like the head of al-Qaida, al-Zarqawi, to run the country. What would that mean for the region? The world?
Murtha's message of surrender is much more to the liking of al-Qaeda's fifth-column allies in the media, so they have steadfastly ignored Johnson, and built Murtha up to be something he is not. His much touted 30 years in the Marines consisted of less than 6 years of active service. In reality, this alleged "hawk" has spent the last 2 years sniveling that the war in Iraq is unwinnable, and that the Pentagon "misled" him into voting to support it. Back in 1993, he called for the disastrous retreat from Somalia. It isn't the messenger that the media loves — it's the message.
Johnson has seen it all before:
In case people have forgotten, this is the same thing that happened in Vietnam. Peaceniks and people in Congress — and America — started saying bad things about what was going on over there.
The idea is erode our morale and our support for the war, with a view toward causing us to lose it. They are already succeeding at getting troop withdrawals on the table. Prevented from getting the numbers, resources, and moral support they need, our troops will encounter increasing difficulties. Democrats will scream ever more loudly that we're losing, and some of us will be seduced by the idea that everything will be okay if we just tuck our tails between our legs and run away.
But things will not be okay. Our abandonment of freedom in Southeast Asia led to millions of deaths. People were so desperate to escape Vietnamese communists that they would put their families on anything that would float and set out on the high seas hoping for the best. Khmer Rouge communists managed to kill about a third of all Cambodians between 1975 and 1979. If the blood on his hands costs Walter Cronkite any sleep, you wouldn't know it.
This time it will be worse. Islamic terrorists cannot surpass communists in their quest to attain absolute evil — no one could. But the evil they will unleash will not be limited to Iraqis, nor to people of the Middle East. This time, if we cut and run, they will come after us. They will hunt us down in our cities and kill us, using weapons of mass destruction that our withdrawal will effectively put into their hands.
From a letter Osama bin Laden's right-hand man Ayman Zawahiri wrote to al-Zarqawi:
[W]e are in a battle. And more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media. ... The aftermath of American power in Vietnam — and how they ran and left their agents — is noteworthy.
When the liberal media tries to convince us that Iraq equals Vietnam, they aren't describing a current reality. They are describing a game plan — the one they share with al-Qaeda.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 25, 2005 12:43 PM
Comments
You are correct, Sam Johnson's message isn't exactly the one that the media wants to hear. And, because they don't want to hear it, you won't hear it either.
Posted by: Crazy Politico at November 25, 2005 6:11 PM
Sam is a good man if for nothing else than his name is 'Sam'. He supports the cause of freedom and that is not news. It's not news because it is the majority view, it is mainstream, it is the popular opinion. News is whatever is not the majority view, not mainstream, not popular. Unfortunately, by carping on the the 'news' side we are blinded to the ubiquitous opinion that we are winning, the war is supported, and guys like Murtha, Kennedy, and Kerry are out of step as well as out of their minds.
Posted by: Indigo Red at November 25, 2005 8:03 PM
Looks like Bush is siding with Murtha -- at least partly.
Bush plans to announce Wednesday that he's starting the pull out from Iraq -- just a week after his people said only one of 30 or so Iraqi battalions were ready to defend on their own.
Nothing like W's abiliy to train 29 Iraqi battalions over Thanksgiving!
I don't think Murtha likes the idea W has about turning our Air Force over to Iraqi commanders on the ground, though.
I thought our boys wore the blue of the USAF -- not some Iraqi Khaki!
Of course, Bush has the experience there. He never listened to his TANG commanders -- while he was partying in Alabama!
Posted by: Ronald Reagan at November 28, 2005 1:50 PM
