Posted by
Tzimisce on Wednesday, December 06, 2006 4:13:32 PM
So leftists that want us to pull out of Iraq want us to redeploy to
Dafar. I guess they've forgotten our great success in Mogadishu. In the
leftist mind, the military is only to be used as moderators in fights.
Interesting that the people who don't think we should impose our values
on others are always the first ones to call in the troops to impose our
wills on the third world.
Yeah we've all heard the stories of genocide and other attrocities. We
heard all these stories before going in to Bosnia as well. I remember
my fellow left wing college classmates (who cared more about others
than any of the rest of us) tell me about Serbian death camps and
torture methods. I remember one guy who told me on no uncertain terms
that Serbs were forcing mothers to drink the blood of their children.
Of course, the minute we get troops over there we find no death camps.
Investigations of sites of "massacres" bared no evidence of any
attrocities. Mass graves that were supposed to contain hundreds (if not
thousands) of bodies of innocent women and children coughed up a few
bodies of adult males. In short, we were lied too: by our president
(Bill Clinton at the time), by the Europeans and by the people the
Serbs were fighting.
The fact that not a single American died in Bosnia is waved around by
the left as a giant victory flag as if the innocent Serbs killed in US
action didn't matter. It's okay though, Serbs are white Christians: the
enemy of Political Correctness.
Let's contrast this with Iraq. The first thing to point out is that
there is a declaration of war. "Yeah, but it was built on a lie!"
scream liberals. The two reasons that we went to Iraq were WMDs and
connections to al Quada.
There is evidence that a lot of them were moved to Syria before the
invasion. Remember the keys to terrorism are hideability and mobility.
They're not going to show us what they have.
Al Quada ties are often the forgotten reason. Iraq did have ties to al
Quada. They were supporting them with money. The only world trade
center bomber not captured in 1994 fled to Iraq. Czech police monitored
a meeting between a member of Al Quada and the Iraqi embassador in a
cafe six months before 9-11. The list goes on.
So where in Bosnia there was no real reason to go, in Iraq we had a lot
of reasons. And we have a lot of reasons to stay until Iraq is a stable
government. It's both an odd and terrible idea to get involved in
Dafar: a situation that has no strategic value at all.
But with the Dems controlling Congress, watch for the push...