Should Republicans go ahead and add Supreme Court Justices to head off Democrats

Dems want retreat in the face of victory

Frank Gafney:

“Stop the world, I want to get off” was once the title of a popular theatrical comedy. Today, it seems to be the mantra of Democratic Senator Teddy Kennedy of Massachusetts and others who are demanding that the United States have an “exit strategy” from Iraq. Senator Kennedy has even announced that its first step should be the immediate withdrawal of 12,000 troops.

The problem is, exit to where? The truth is, whether we like it or not, the United States cannot exit the global war being waged against us by Islamofascist terrorists and their allies, any more than we can stop the world and get off it. In fact, were America actually to heed the siren’s call – issued by Sen. Kennedy before Sunday’s remarkable election in Iraq made doing so, at least for the moment, unimaginable – and retreat from the Iraqi front in that war, it would simply assure that we will be fighting these enemies far closer to home and, indeed, in all likelihood here.

Let’s be clear: The discredited Left, epitomized by Sen. Kennedy, proposes a reprise of their cut-and-run exit strategy in Vietnam. Just leave and if somebody else wants to take over – say, the United Nations – so be it.

But, whether the UN or anybody else is willing and able to help secure and stabilize Iraq, according to this view, is not our concern. We simply no longer have the stomach for the effort to which a far greater Kennedy, President John F., and his incumbent successor have pledged our national prestige and resources: Standing with those who seek freedom and against their oppressors. The lesser Kennedy seems fully prepared to cut our losses and have the Devil (or at least a Saddam-like version of him) take the hindmost.

It is remarkable how much the interestof the Democrat liberals and the terrorist coincide. The more terrorism al Qaeda et.al. engages in the more Kennedy and the gang believe that it is prevoked by US forces being there and retreat is necessary. This is exactly how Osama bin Laden read US resolve after Mogudishu, Make them bleed a little and they will run with their tales between their legs. This is why Kennedy and the liberal Democrats should never be trusted withthe national security of this country. Fortunately the Iraqi voters ignored the terrorist and went to vote on Sunday. They certainly showed more courage than Kennedy.