Victor Davis Hanson on the Prophet Barack's equating our invasion of Iraq with the Russian rape of Georgia:
We didn't have to wait long for the much anticipated morally-equivalent message from Barack Obama: “We’ve got to send a clear message to Russia and unify our allies. They can’t charge into other countries. Of course it helps if we are leading by example on that point.”
Let me get this straight: getting a Senate and House majority to authorize a bipartisan joint war-resolution, going to the UN, assembling a coalition, having a national and world debate on the wisdom of such an operation from December 2001 to March 2003, and then attacking a genocidal dictator, and staying on to foster a constitutional democracy are apparently the same "charge" "example" as an autocracy suddenly invading its democratic neighbor during the Olympics, and staying on to annex some of its territory?
What Obama said was utterly stupid, yet thoroughly typical of the so-called "progressive" world-view, which sees little difference between the actions of liberal democracies and those of brutal dictatorships*. It's the same "blame America first" attitude that permeated the Carter administration and that Jeanne Kirkpatrick so famously denounced.
Do we really want to go through that again?
*(Don't kid yourself. Democracy in Russia, if not dead already, lies in the gutter mortally wounded.)
(via Real Clear Politics)
LINKS: More at Blue Crab Boulevard.
Recent Comments