Anti war phonies

Ralph Peters:

AM I the only one who's noticed the silence? Mere months ago, left-wing bloggers and demonstrators were wailing Support our troops, bring them home! seven days a week.

Now their presidential candidate has announced that he won't bring all those troops home, but will simply transfer combat forces from Iraq to Afghanistan - expanding that war. (He's discussed possibly invading Pakistan, too.)

And the left's quiet as a graveyard at midnight.

Where are the outraged protests from MoveOn or the DailyKos? I thought the extreme left felt sorry for our service members in harm's way and wanted to reunite them with their families.

What happened?

We all know exactly what happened. The left has nothing against foreign wars (as long as they don't have to fight in person). They just want to pick our wars themselves.

The problem with Iraq wasn't that America toppled Saddam Hussein, but that George W. Bush did it. I've been saying it for years: Had Bill Clinton done the job, the left would've celebrated him as the greatest liberator since Abraham Lincoln.

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Those who know nothing of war - and who decline to serve - kind of like a nice little invasion of their own. Forget those pesky human and financial costs - as long as the left can have its own war, war's great!

"Support our troops, bring them home" just may go down as the second-most-cynical slogan in history, right behind Arbeit macht frei.

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So here are three straightforward questions for all the march-in-step lefties who howled, "Support our troops, bring them home!" before their new messiah decided that war's not so bad, after all:

* Given that your candidate acknowledges the need for more combat troops in Afghanistan, will you enlist and do your part? Or do you expect other young Americans to continue to bleed in your place?

* If your man is elected president and orders ground troops into Pakistan - which could lead to a much wider conflict - will you enlist and do your part? We'll need a lot more troops to occupy those badlands.

* If the next president yanks our troops out of Iraq, all the progress disintegrates, Iran moves in and we have to re-invade to clean up the mess, will you enlist and do your part?

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I have often noted that the so called anti war left is not really anti war, they are just against our side of the war. They have never demonstrated against al Qaeda's side. Their embrace of teh Afghan war is just posturing to cover their anti US bias. Will Nancy Pelosi, who always describes the administrations "endless war in Iraq" use the same phrase about the war in Afghanistan which has lasted longer?

I think she will. It will probably come after the Iraq war is over and the liberals take their eye off of that ball.

We should not be fooled by the posturing on Afghanistan though. That is just Democrat demagoguery designed to cover their lack of credibility on national security because of their desperation for defeat in Iraq.