The left's loser vision

David Limbaugh:

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The left today -- like yesterday -- can't get its head around the idea that we are in a global war, and that is primarily because it has difficulty making the crucial moral distinctions that are essential to our clarity of vision.

Its inability or refusal to see Islamic extremism as evil prevents it from understanding that the terrorists' hostility against us, Israel and any other nation that chooses to obstruct their hegemonic designs cannot be appeased and that they must be defeated.

The left's blindness to this evil keeps it from grasping that we are not the antagonists in Iraq or the initiators of a "war of choice," but justifiably removed Saddam Hussein from power and are now morally justified in trying to help the Iraqis establish self-rule. The liberals' blindness also led them to sympathize with misguided European and United Nations' critics of the U.S. intervention in Iraq.

When the left finally succeeded in de-funding our defense of South Vietnam, a bloodbath ensued, despite John Kerry's and the left's arrogantly cynical dismissal of predictions it would occur. The left has never been held accountable for that, partly because it distorted and rewrote history, and as a result it has far more credibility than it deserves today in advocating a similar withdrawal from Iraq and in denying the abject evil of Muslim extremists.

To glean the proper lessons from these parallels we must compare the approach of the left toward our enemies -- best personified in Jimmy Carter's defeatism and malaise (which still persists today) -- to the triumphalism of Reagan conservatism.

Had America accepted the Jimmy Carter worldview, we might still be fighting the Cold War. Until we reject that worldview today and understand the nature of our enemy and the global context of the war, we will be hard-pressed to turn the corner in the war on terror.

One of the reasons the left adopts this alternate reality is that it wants the US to lose when it uses forces. It has wanted the US to lose in Iraq since the war began and has been doing everything it can to accomplish that objective. The media that made a strategic defeat out of a US victory in the Tet offensive is trying to accomplish the same thing in Iraq. They have sought to undermine the premise of the war and the effort and effect of the troops fighting it.