Posted by
Doctor Demex on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 4:42:19 PM
When you have to stop your car, it resists. The harder you try to
stop, the more it resists. Still, you must prevail over your car
because lives might be at stake.
The more you want to buy something, the more the merchant will raise
his price to counter your demand. Still, you must prevail if you
need to buy this thing.
If someone attacks us, we defend ourselves. If you attack us in
our homes, we'll fight harder. This is why a vastly outnumbered
Confederacy held off Union forces for so long. (As one southern
soldier put it when asked by his northern enemy why he was fighting so
hard to defend the Confederacy, "Because you're down here!")
Nazis did not kill American soldiers until we sent our boys overseas to
kill them. Is there any doubt that the urgency of defending the
fatherland probably generated more bloody resistance to the Allied
campaign?
In all four of these examples, which are among hundreds, the central question is "So what?"
For President Bush's detractors in the Democratic Party and the
mainstream media to emphasize leaked, and now declassified,
intelligence observations that our military operations in Iraq
contributed to an increase in international terrorism against the West
is a disingenuous attempt to confuse the American people and incite
opposition to the other more relevant intelligence observations
that they are deliberately underreporting, namely, that failure to
prevail would be much worse.