Friday - December 15, 2006

Surrender?

_{John Trever - The Albuquerque Journal}

Surrender By Any Other Name...
-- by Ann Coulter
(HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE)

How did we go from winning the war in Iraq to losing overnight? Was this decided by the same committee that changed “Peking” to “Beijing”?

These word changes are a fortiori evidence that liberals are part of a conspiracy. On what date did “horrible” and “actress” vanish from the English language to be replaced with “horrific” and “actor”? Who decided that? (Meanwhile, I’m still writing “Puff Daddy” in my nightly dream journal when everybody else has started calling him “Diddy.")

When did “B.C.” (before Christ) and “A.D.” (anno Domini, “in the year of the Lord") get replaced with “BCE” (before the common era) and “CE” (common era)? “Withdrawal” is “redeployment,” “liberal” is “progressive,” and “traitorous” is “patriotic.”

These new linguistic conventions—like going from “winning” to “losing” in Iraq—simply spread like an invisible bacterial invasion.

To be sure, last month the Democrats did win a narrow majority in Congress for the first time in more than a decade. And it cannot be denied that for the past 50 years, Democrats have orchestrated humiliating foreign policy defeats for America. So it is understandable that some might interpret their midterm gains as a mandate for another humiliating defeat.

But that’s not what the Democrats told Americans when they were running for office. To the contrary, they claimed to be gun-totin’ hawks. A shockingly high number of Democratic candidates this year actually fought in wars. And not just the war on poverty, either—real wars, against men with guns.

It was a specific plan of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Rep. Rahm Emanuel to fake out the voters by recruiting anti-war veterans to run against Republicans. (And when did “chairman” become “chair”?)

To the credit of the voters—especially the American Legion and VFW—the Democrats didn’t fool enough Americans to even match the average midterm gains for the party out of power.

But the point is: You can’t run as a phony patriot and then claim your victory is a mandate for surrender. That would be like awarding yourself undeserved Purple Hearts and then pretending to throw them over the White House wall in protest. No, that’s not fair—nothing could be as contemptible as throwing someone else’s medals on the ground in protest.

Is it the report of the “Iraq Surrender Group” that suddenly caused everyone to say we’re losing?

The ISG report was about what you’d expect if the ladies from “The View” were asked to come up with a victory plan for Iraq. We need to ask Syria to tell Hamas to stop calling for the destruction of Israel. Duh! “Dear Hamas, Do you like killing Jews, or do you LIKE killing Jews? Check yes or no.”

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Posted by The Skipper     on 12/15/2006 at 09:54 AM   
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