Why Are the Defeat-o-crats Anti-War?

 The military genius, Carl von Clausewitz, in his classic text On War, stated; “If you want to overcome your enemy you must match your effort against his power of resistance.”  He then goes on to define the enemy’s power of resistance as “the product of two inseparable factors, the total means at his disposal and the strength of his will.”

 The Global War on Terror (GWOT) pits America against an enemy who has repeatedly proven that, while his means may vary in size and affect, his strength of will at present is much stronger than our own.  When your enemy views his death as inevitable and even desired, your ability to defeat him by classic means of force attrition (kill a large percentage of his army and you win) disappears.  The Islamic terrorists, regardless of their affiliation with bin Laden, have proven that they will fight and kill Americans to the very last man.

 So to prevent more deaths in the American civilian population, we must defeat the Islamic terrorist in two ways.  One, we must limit or completely eliminate his various means of attacking within the US or attacking US interests/citizens abroad.  Secondly, we must complete eliminate each and every cell, terrorist, training camp or recruiting center we can as far from our borders as possible.

 President Bush has outlined a unique foreign and domestic policy that attempts to achieve each of these goals.   Through various legislative acts, intelligence initiatives and military attacks, he has worked very hard to protect America and her interests while at the same time taking the fight abroad to achieve the second goal while simultaneously enhancing the first.  His stated policy has moved America from a reactionary footing (established by Clinton) to a preemptive one.  In other words, he wants to hit them before they hit us again.  That is our stated national policy in relation to international Islamic terrorism. 

 Now, we come to the present.  Supposedly the Defeat-o-crats are “pro-soldier” while “anti-war” (whatever that means - isn't that like supporting the police while being anti-law enforcement?) and they believe the War in Iraq is lost, or at best, not worth fighting.  Von Clausewitz correctly identified war as an extension of national policy, not as an aberration or unnatural phenomenon that occurs entirely on its own.

He states; "the political object - the original motive for the war - will thus determine both the military objective to be reached and the amount of effort it requires."

 So why are we fighting in Iraq?  We are fighting in Iraq as an extension of our stated national policy on combating Islamic Terrorism and to promote democracy in the Middle East.

 Now if the Defeat-o-crats are anti-war, then they are anti-national policy.  It cannot be any simpler than that.  If they are against our stated national policy, then they are against protecting our borders.  They are against preventing another 9-11.  They are against defeating the terrorists outside of our borders.  They are completely against the pre-emptive GWOT, period!

How would they fight the GWOT?  They have demonstrated that in the past, and are calling for the same now  – entirely as a law enforcement and dialogue building exercise.  Telling us that we need to “understand the terrorists” and then they try to give these jihadist murderers the same moral footing as Mother Teresa. We have seen how successful that approach was – it resulted in 9-11! 

But why would they want to do this?  Because they do not value American democracy – that is the only answer possible.  Look at every solution proposed by a democrat for the last 50 years.  It consists of the same two points – raise taxes and give the federal government more power!

They see the GWOT as merely a means to achieve their long-standing political goals – socialistic control over the American people!  They would rather acheive this goal than to protect the innocent lives of ordinary Americans like you and I.

If they truly valued democracy – they would realize that the war in Iraq is a war for democracy and worth fighting for – but since they do not value democracy, it does not matter to them what will happen to the Iraqi people after American troops are withdrawn.  They prefer totalitarian regimes, that is why they did not want America to win in Viet-Nam and why they oppose victory in Iraq as well.

Why are the Defeat-o-crats anti-war?  Because they are not Pro-America!!  They are pro-socialism!!