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off the Gloves
Finally the Administration pushed back...
[Gordon Cucullu] 12/29/05
For fans
of President George W. Bush who have been wondering where the
fight went over the past few months, the question has been
answered in his last several appearances especially at an impromptu
press conference last Monday morning. He’s back. He’s
angry. And he’s committed to finishing what he started:
winning the war on terror, settling for nothing less than victory,
not agonizing appeasement and withdrawal as his opponents want
him to do.
Contributor
Gordon Cucullu
Former
Green Beret lieutenant colonel, Gordon Cucullu is now
an editorialist, author and a popular speaker. Born
into a military family, he lived and served for more
than thirteen years in East Asia, including eight years
in Korea. For his Special Forces service in Vietnam
he was awarded a Bronze Star, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry,
and the Presidential Unit Commendation. After separation
from the Army, he worked on Korea and East Asian affairs
at both the Pentagon and Department of State as well
as an executive for General Electric in Korea. His
first major non-fiction work, Separated
at Birth: How North Korea became the Evil Twin,
is based in large part on his extensive experience
in Korea and East Asia as a governmental insider and
businessman. [website]
[go to Cucullu index]
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Visibly more
comfortable at his press conference as the plain talking, straight-from-the-shoulder
Bush, the President scythed
through the Washington press corps with grim determination, not
suffering the usual fools but mowing them steadily with determination
and purpose. You would think by now that the opposition had learned
that the way to beat Bush is to pretend to accommodate and let
him trip himself up. Instead the left falls back on what it does
best: personal attack, unfounded allegation, destructive innuendo,
and hollow threats. It have been John Kerry’s crack about
winning the House in ’06 in order to “begin impeachment
proceedings,” that sent the prez off on a tear.
Maybe the President
simply has had a gut full of the constant carping, dissembling,
and second-guessing that characterizes
today’s Democrats. Never willing to go out on a limb with
a positive suggestion, the party with precious few exceptions
is preoccupied with trying to destroy Bush personally and professionally.
Some of this vitriol lingers like last night’s stale cooking
odor in the Democrat kitchen. And as a party it is making them
sick to their stomach. You don’t have to look far to hear
carping about the 2000 election still out there, along with imaginary
2004 voter irregularities, “Bush lied,” “shredding
the Constitution,” and even – I’m not making
this up – blood for oil. The party needs a purgative. Or
at least a leader sufficiently bold to open the windows and let
in some fresh air.
But characteristic
of George Bush – as with Harry Truman,
FDR, and Ronald Reagan – when he gets pushed too far he
pushes back - hard. Truman was ready to punch out a Washington
newspaper columnist just for maligning daughter Margaret’s
lousy piano playing. Listening to W take a leaf from Give-‘em-hell-Harry’s
playbook at the Monday press conference one could almost hear
his boot thumping into selective reporter’s backsides will
well-deserved vigor. Since most of the press is shilling for
the Democrats they are going to have to accept the fact that
when lumps are being distributed they will receive their fair
share.
What has the Democrat
Party sunk to when the best they can do is whine and complain
without even a word of praise for troops
or for the country in wartime? We hear Jack Murtha from Pennsylvania
say the American Army is “broken” and that the war
is “lost.” Howard Dean, DNC chairman, tells us the “war
is unwinnable.” Nancy Pelosi, rather than congratulate
the Iraqi people on a remarkable electoral achievement grouses
that “now they can take care of themselves,” and
wants to “bring the troops home immediately.” John
Kerry, to no one’s surprise, attacks the character of the
troops, comparing today’s soldiers to “terrorists
breaking into Iraqi homes at night.”
This is the party
of war-fighting Democrats like FDR, HST, and JFK? Other than
Joe Liberman it is unrecognizable. America needs
a strong Democrat Party, but on the model of Scoop Jackson and
San Nunn, not Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan. The Washington
Post discussed Democrat strategy: “Key Democrat operatives
and legislators are slowly coalescing around a political plan
[that] would involve setting a broad time frame for drawing down
U.S. troops and blaming Bush for misleading the country into
a war without a victory plan. Their aim is to ‘provide
the party enough maneuvering room to allow Democrats to adjust
their position as conditions in Iraq change.’”
The Post explains
that this policy of equivocation and blame is the result of
fears that publicly pushing for a hasty withdrawal
from Iraq would jeopardize the party's chances of succeeding
in 2006. Thus, as Paul Mirengoff analyzes, “for the third
straight election, mainstream Democrats intend to craft their
position on matters of war and peace based on political calculation,
not their view of the national interest.”
We all need to take
a hard look at American career politicians who – while forbidding us to challenge their patriotism – are
willing to sell the country out in time of war. This is a shameful,
cowardly posture. Cut and run, retreat and defeat, are not ways
to make America more secure and to win over an aberrant, hostile
ideology of Islamofascism that is determined to kill and kill
some more until it has triumphed over Western civilization. While
those words sound hyperbolic to some here in America they are
quotes from Usama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahari, Muhammad Atef,
and other terror masters.
In the 1930s a minor
German politician named Hitler wrote a book outlining in chilling
detail his vision of world conquest,
elimination of international Jewry, and promulgation of a thousand
year master race. He was not taken seriously. He was never challenged
when he was weak. But through policies of abject appeasement
and a foolhardy desire for “peace at any price” was
allowed to grow in strength until he dictated terms of war and
peace. Millions died. Students of that period ask how could people
have been so foolish, so naïve? Why didn’t the West
stop him when we had the chance?
Those questions are
every bit as valid in today’s fight
as they were then. George W. Bush understands the nature of the
fight. He knows we are in a war of civilizations and that we
have only one option: win, and win decisively. We have made mistakes
in this war as countries have in every previous war. We will
make more errors until over time we get it right. We are winning
despite what the defeatists would have us believe. And we will
win decisively if we find the steel in our backbones to support
the president. -one-
Curious
about North Korea? Learn more in Gordon’s
best-selling book Separated
at Birth: How North Korea became the Evil Twin became
the Evil Twin, Lyons Press available at bookstores now.
copyright
2005 Gordon Cucullu
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