Retreat will not end killing or the war

David Limbaugh:

Have you seen the latest reports and photographs of Al Qaeda's brutality and savagery in Iraq? In view of these, how can any reasonable person still maintain our own policies and actions are making them do it?

How can so many be blind or indifferent to the ruthlessness, tenacity and implacability of our jihadist enemy? How can they so easily downplay or ignore this global threat as if its existence is purely a product of our perception, which we can wish away with positive thinking, legislate away or make disappear by withdrawing from Iraq?

Ending our involvement in Iraq will not end the Iraq war as Democrats glibly imply, nor our involvement in the global war. But it will surely increase the violence and death in Iraq and the likelihood of victory for our terrorist enemies.

What kind of deceptive force possesses American and Western European liberals to make obscene claims of moral equivalence between the consistent acts of barbarism unquestionably committed by our enemies and the rare cases of alleged misconduct by our troops in Iraq or Guantanamo?

Better yet, what makes them look the other way or even apologize for the terrorists' actions -- "our policies caused them to do it" -- but rush to embrace the worst imaginable, mostly untrue allegations against our troops, our commanders and the Bush administration?

Don't accuse me of hyperbole unless you have a sufficient explanation for the left's utter lack of outrage over the horror perpetrated by the enemy in Iraq on a daily basis. Don't accuse me of distortion in saying you are willing to believe the worst about our soldiers unless you can explain why your first instinct is to believe the enemy's propaganda instead of our own people in Gitmo and elsewhere.

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To the extent their vision isn't marred by BDS I have to conclude their worldview doesn't permit them the clarity of moral vision necessary to comprehend the true nature of our enemy and that it cannot be reasoned with, negotiated with, mollified or deterred short of the use of force.

Despite their unconvincing protests to the contrary, it's painfully obvious liberals just don't believe in our cause in Iraq. Their behavior cannot be explained any other way. They're clearly rooting against, indeed trying to preempt the surge and otherwise thwart our mission.

If they wanted the surge to work, they wouldn't be declaring it a failure prior to the date Commander David Petraeus set for fairly evaluating our progress -- especially considering that many signs are pointing to the surge's success.

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Democrats have a desperation for defeat because they see a short term political advantage and they believe long term they can use it to prevent the use of force in the future. They want to permanently put the US on the defensive and send in the police and the lawyers after we are attacked rather than use force to destroy the enemy that is trying to destroy us. This policy was a demonstrable failure under the Clinton administration but it is what the liberals want. It will get more innocent Americans killed and will turn over intelligence assets to the enemy to avoid detection for their next attacks but this is what liberals want. It must be their sense of fairness.

In the real world we are fighting religious bigots who think they are on a mission from God and they look at mercy as a weakness. They hope that others will flock to their strong horse policies and shun the weak horse policies which the Democrats are pushing.