Posted by
Daniel Miller on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:13:46 PM
Are we cowards as well?
I know some of you disagree with me on most of this, but you may not get this perspective from your favorite news sources.
I support President Bush in his decision to confront Islamic radicals. Of course the war could have been conducted more efficiently and successfully to date but in the course of world history, what
successful war effort did not overcome self imposed as well as enemy obstacles? Recent US House and Senate legislation, based on perceived mandates suggest that the US is striving to emulate our misguided European friends. Is history worthless as a teacher? Should America repeat the same mistakes of the late 1930s as Europe seems determined to?
What sense does it make for a governing body (the United States Congress) to vote for requested spending legislation (
loaded with non-emergency spending) and include language to announce a US Military withdrawal plan less than a month after
unanimously approving General Petraeus and his troop surge plan? Don't they owe to him the confidence their votes demonstrated? Was 3 weeks all the time he was allowed to implement and finish his plan?
Here is a link
EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE to an editorial written by Mathias D
Öpfner, CEO of the German publishing firm
Axel Springer, published in
Die Welt in the fall of 2004. I hope you take the 5 minutes it takes to read.
Events that have occurred in Europe subsequent to that time(Muslim response to Dutch cartoons, riots in Paris, terror bombings in Madrid and London to name just a few) reinforce Mr. D
Öpfner's arguments.
Here are links to write
your Representative,
Senators and
The Victory Caucus, should you want to exercise
your voice.