Saturday - February 17, 2007

The Effeminate Left

Or Peace Through Prostration? 

The leader of the cowardly left, Jack Murtha, has associated himself with a group called MoveCongress.org.  If you want, you can listen to Murtha call a retreat a redeployment.  What is more interesting, is the mindset of this groups and its "partners."

MoveCongress.org's talking points suggest the following:

There is no military solution, only a political solution

The United States needs to work with regional governments, including Iran and Syria, to achieve reconciliation in Iraq. In a recent poll conducted by the University of Maryland, 82% of Democrats and 72% of Republicans said we should directly engage with Syria and Iran to establish a political solution in Iraq, as was unanimously recommended by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group.

Negotiations work with friendly nations.  Thus we have things like NAFTA, or NATO.  Successful agreements require that both sides are willing to adhere to the bargain.  Yet the left would have you believe that nations like Syria or Iran, first would bargain in good faith and secondly, if they did agree to a treaty, that they would follow it.  And if we run from Iraq, wouldn't these nations think that the consequences for violating a treaty with the U.S. would be negligible?

Let's look at the groups partnered with Murtha's friends.  WinWithoutWar, thinks:

We are patriotic Americans who are committed to a U.S. foreign policy that embodies our nation's highest ideals. We oppose the militarization of our foreign policy and its effects at home and abroad. We share the commitment to countering terrorism and weapons proliferation, but oppose the doctrine of unilateral military preemption. We believe that international cooperation and enforceable international law provide the greatest security for the United States and the world, and the greatest opportunity for people to live in free, healthy, and just societies.

So let's get this straight, they oppose terrorism, but think talking them to death is the answer?  No nation can long exist if its citizens are unwilling to defend it.  And it seems they are unwilling to defend for any reason.  Apparently this "mythical" international community will keep us safe.  By the way, you aren't patriotic if you call for national defeat.  That would be traitorous.

Women's Action for New Directions is another member of this leftist movement against American vigor in foreign policy.  Here is their motto found at the top of their website:

WAND empowers women.

To take political action.

To change our culture and our national priorities:

Toward peace and real security.

Away from militarism and violence.

If other countries around the world were like us, there might not be a need to retain a vigorous national defense.  If we allow leftist such as this to direct our foreign policy, we would be at the mercy of our enemies.  The left, blinded by their hatred of their own country, deny the ruthlessness of the world around them.  While this group may deny reality, it doesn't change the fact that the world is a dangerous place and it requires, sometimes, military action.  

Then there is 2020 Vision.  They say:

As part of our country's moral responsibility to people of Iraq, 2020 Vision supports:

    * Vigorous U. S. diplomatic efforts to encourage Iraq's neighbors and other nations to help the Iraqi factions to achieve a political settlement; and

    * The phased redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq beginning as soon as possible.

In other words, they want Shiite Iran to mediate between the Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites?  Or do they want the Sunni Baathists in Syria to help the Shiites and Sunnis to come to an agreement? Or do they want the Saudis, who view Shiites as apostates, to mediate the conflict?  I'm confused, because in any scenario they might suggest, one side gets slaughtered in the name of the left's dispassion toward the fate of Iraq.  Do you really want to be associated with a group which thinks that Syria or Iran operates with the same morality as the United States?  

You can read about the rest of the groups associated with Murtha's new friend yourself, but the point is this, "Do you want people who view America as immoral, but seemingly trust an Iran or Syria to direct our foreign policy?"

Any republic must promote virtue and vigor.  And to that end, maintaining a strong military and the will to use it is required.  The left, convinced that America is immoral (yet at the same time, they idolize a Cuba, a China, an Iran....) fears even the slightest hint of militarism, as they are convinced America will engage in yet another killing frenzy.  

This folks, is the effeminacy of the left.  It will be the undoing of this republic, as no nation can long survive that is more interested in hedonism than sacrifice.

Trackposted to Blue Star Chronicles, Is It Just Me?, Allie Is Wired, stikNstein... has no mercy, and Pursuing Holiness, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.