The Right State

There is an old saying I heard from my grandfather many years ago concerning change.  He would say, “The more things change, the more things stay the same.”  His point was that as we continue down the path of life, things seem to go in circles.  For instance we as a nation are horrible at history.  (That is not fair to us since the Europeans are as guilty at this oversight as we are)  As a result of our shortsightedness, we repeat the same mistakes over and over again.  Many in the US did not see the threat Germany posed to the security of the entire world until it was almost too late.  Today many Americans do not see terrorism as a threat to the world.  Penraker has a great post comparing our reluctance to enter World War II with our reluctance to enter the GWOT.

Right up to December 7th, 1941, America First and Charles Lindbergh maintained a very popular campaign to keep us out of war.

They were very clear: We had no business meddling in Europe’s business. Let them all go to hell over there. We don’t need to be involved. Besides, Lindbergh reasoned, it was all because of the British and the Jewish influence in the country that we were even considering being involved at all. It sounds an awful lot like the arguments that we hear today.

Isn’t that the truth.  Read the rest, it is a great comparison between our entry into these two wars.

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For eighteen years Joe Lieberman has been a Senator.  He rose to national prominence when Al Gore picked the Connecticut Democrat to be his running mate for the 2000 Presidential election.  Joe has been a ‘good’ Democrat having voted against George Bush 92% of the time (I would call anyone who votes against the President 92% of the time an obstructionist) Then we were attacked on 9/11 and Joe Lieberman did the unthinkable.  He supported President Bush in his attack on Saddam Hussein and still supports it today.  But supporting the President in a time of war is unpopular with rank-and-file Democrats, so he Joe lost the Democratic Primary to single issue anti-war candidate Ned Lamont.  Throughout all of this Lieberman has shown remarkable tenacity and has decided to run for the Connecticut Senate as an Independent.  Leftist Democrats like John Kerry have come out against his decision to run for the Senate as an Independent.

The run to the left fringe continues for failed presidential candidate John Kerry.  The Massachusetts liberal went full scale on the attack against Connecticut US Senator Joe Lieberman on Sunday when he appeared with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

According to a report on the ABC web site, Kerry accused the 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate of “adopting the rhetoric of Dick Cheney,” on the issue of Iraq.

Just when I thought Joe Lieberman was showing some guts in supporting the war in Iraq specifically and the Global War on Terror generally, the Senator starts this ‘me too’ nonsense.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, attacked by fellow Democrats as being too close to the White House on the Iraq War, on Sunday called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign but said the United States cannot “walk away” from the Iraqis.

Democrats have earned their reputation as ‘cut-and-run Democrats.’  The lone exception to this rule was Joe Lieberman who saw the war in Iraq for what it was, a small piece of the GWOT.  As the Democrats turned against the war, the Main Stream Media obediently followed.  As the MSM began to toe the Democratic Party line, the American public who were only allowed to see the bad in Iraq began to buy into the ‘we can not win in Iraq’ mantra.  Joe’s primary loss to Ned Lamont was one of the results and seemed to have scared the Senator.

Not everyone is buying Lieberman’s change in positions.  Even Ned Lamont found the Senator’s newfound position on Iraq hard to swallow.

“His new found ‘criticism’ of the war won’t convince Connecticut voters after so many years of stubbornly rubber-stamping Bush’s failed policies,” the statement said.

What happened to the Senator’s renown independent streak?  Where are his guts?  I guess he is afraid of losing his seat in the Senate if he continues to unconditionally support the war.  While I did not like the old Lieberman very much, I dislike the new Lieberman even more.

Tags: Democrats, President Bush, Bias, Politics, War by Chuck
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Germany’s security bubble has just burst. They thought they had covered all their bases in their efforts to appease the same Islamofascists who hate America. For years German politicians have blasted the United States as a way of achieving office. They opposed sending troops into Iraq. They have opposed the US on just about everything. And they, along with much of Europe, have refused to get serious with the terrorist groups in their own countries.

All of this changed with the arrest of a 21 year old engineering student from Lebanon for trying to bomb the German rail system.

“The terrorist threat has never before come so close to us,” Wolfgang Schäuble, the Interior Minister, said. Police patrols on railway stations have been stepped up but the scale of the problem — 5,700 railway stations and 4.3 million passengers a day — makes it impossible to impose the security measures being put in place in airports in Britain and elsewhere.

The suspect, identified only as Youssef Mohammed E, is accused of being at the heart of a plot to blow up two regional trains simultaneously on July 31. Investigators say that only a flaw in the construction of the propane gas bombs prevented a disaster.

What the German people do not seem to understand is the Islamic terrorists hate Germany because who they are. Germany is a rich, western, democratic and free society; the embodiment of everything the Islamofascists hate. The terrorists hate Germany because Germany is not an Islamic state. They hate Germany because German women do not cover themselves.

Another words, the terrorists hate everything about Germany. So they might as well get on board with the United States and fight the terrorists where they are. Spain has learned this lesson as has Australia and Great Britain, the Islamists want to destroy the west. Thus far, Great Britain and Australia have been great partners in this Global War on Terror while we fight the terrorists where they live. Germany would serve its people well if they also joined in this fight.

War has been declared on the west, we can either chose to fight or we can ignore the problem, or we can give in. Until now, Germany has chosen to ignore the problem, but you can be sure the Islamists have not. Ignoring the problem is suicide.

Hat tip: Captain’s Quarters

Tags: Terrorism, War by Chuck
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