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June 20, 2006
More Knives in Backs: Diane Feinstein and Our Troops
Posted by Dave Blount at June 20, 2006 12:17 PM
All members of our government have a duty to do everything in their power to make sure America prevails in oversees struggles. Yet horrifyingly, some have shown themselves willing to sabotage our efforts for cheap political purposes.
As Debra Saunders notes, Senator Feinstein voted in favor of the October 2002 war resolution. Yet now she is yammering for "phased deployment" — the latest mealy-mouthed euphemism for "surrender and run away." As would be obvious to a child, this undermines the morale of our troops, while providing encouragement to the terrorist enemy.
The amendment she is pitching — calling for a strategically suicidal timetable for troop withdrawal — is not only counterproductive, but unnecessary. Bush is already under all too much pressure to withdraw troops as soon as it is feasible, as he has promised to do. But the idea of the USA winning the war and then coming back is unacceptable to Dems who want credit for bringing the troops home, and for the Republicans to get the blame for a thoroughly pointless enterprise, which the war will prove to be if we pull out prematurely and al Qaeda, Baathists, or an Iranian proxy government fills the void.
Here's how Saunders sums up Feinstein's perfidy:
Once a senator votes for a war resolution, the senator has not renounced his or her duty to criticize bad policies, nor does the senator forfeit the right to change his or her mind.
The senator, however, does have a responsibility to fight for victory — so that the troops who die abroad do not die in vain, or endure more fire because Washington pandered to voters' anxiety.
As awful as it is to imagine, our troops dying in vain may be the main objective of the cut-and-run crowd. As victory draws closer, they seem to be getting desperate to surrender before the military has a chance to return triumphant, leaving behind a secure democracy instead of a terror-supporting dictatorship that can be hung around Republicans' necks.
