Peace With Honor

Clearly the best of all possible worlds is for the United States to be at peace with the people of Iraq and of the world. It is in the vital national interest of both countries and the civilized world that peace come through victory, the victory of the United States and our allies over the forces of lawlessness and Fascism. The now fashionable and all too common tactic of using any and every possible pretext that can conceivably be construed or mis-construed to damage Mr. Bush and the Republican Party regardless of the damage it does the welfare of the United States and its allies must be strongly condemned. This is pure agitprop straight out of Comintern's old play books. That is has succeeded in undermining the United States in the past, due in large part to the unflagging efforts of the Fourth Estate, is no credit to either the purveyors of politicized disinformation nor of those who slavishly pander to their misguided and malicious political sleight of hand. A policy of defeat has in this manner been perpetrated on the American people once before, with disastrous results for all concerned. Those who propound such non-solutions to difficult but not intractable problems do not deserve the public trust and ought to recuse themselves from the semblance of public service.

The American people do not deserve to be led by short-sighted and cowardly opportunists. The American fighting man does not deserve to be once again grist for the mills of petty political advantage. The friends and allies of the United States do not deserve to be once again betrayed to suffering, persecution and death to serve the politcal aims of the far Left who see their greatest gain in America's greatest loss. This war was brought to us on September 11, 2001. During its course to date American diplomacy and American arms have achieved notable victories which will be studied with gratitude by generations to come. The fact the ultimate victory, nor the set path to ultimate victory, can be seen with clear and concise certainty does not by any means indicate that such a victory will ultimately elude our grasp. The fact that there have been and will continue to be errors, misjudgements, underestimations and mishandlings does not mean that we are inextricably sunk in a military and moral morass, still less does it detract from what we have so far accomplished and will accomplish.

Those who choose surrender, those who claim defeat, those who would lead Americans by half truths, bald-faced lies and pure fantasy fiction into a shallow and illusory safety must be named what they are: blind incompetents, shameful cowards and out-and-out traitors. Failure of courage, failure of nerve, failure of vision, failure plain and simple, is still unacceptable failure, no matter how gaudily it is gilded and loudly lauded with the accolades of "peace with honor." The only peace with honor worthy of the American people is the total, utter and abject defeat of our enemies, never of ourselves.