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March 6, 2007
The Left's Bloodthirsty Commitment to Peace
Posted by Dave Blount at March 6, 2007 8:28 AM
FrontPage offers a great quote by Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT):
The greatest gift our country can give the Cambodian people is not guns but peace. And the best way to accomplish that goal is by ending military aid now.
Dodd said that on March 12, 1975, as the Dems were pulling the financial rug out from under South Vietnam and Cambodia. They didn't want victory, they just wanted to give peace a chance.
A little more than a month after Dodd's fatuous remark, Pol Pot took power in Phnom Penn. His communist regime managed to kill about 30% of the entire population of the country. The catastrophe that befell South Vietnam, epitomized by the Boat People, wasn't much prettier.
Astoundingly, being drenched in the blood of 2 million Cambodians does not stop Dodd from running for President. Nor does the cataclysm that followed American withdrawal from Southeast Asia prevent the Democrat Party from pursuing the same policy for Iraq, though no one seriously disputes the consequences will be comparable if not worse — and far more likely to follow us home.
When liberals advocate "peace," they're not after a decrease in political violence, but a decrease in American hegemony. "Peace" means waging propaganda war against the Pax Americana that has suppressed violence around the world.
Increased American presence has resulted in a 70% decrease in Baghdad violence over the last few weeks. But this is hardly likely to win Dems over to support the troop surge. On the contrary, the more likely it is to lead to American success at quelling violence, the more vehemently Democrats will object to it, politically committed as they are to our defeat.
