Cut & Run vs. Cut & Walk
FNC’s Jamie Colby just interviewed former South Carolina Democratic Chairman Dick Harpootlian and former Rep. Bob Walker, (R-PA), on Iraq strategy. Harpootlian said that the difference between Dems and Republicans is that “Democrats want to cut and run and Republicans want to cut and walk”, implying that neither side cares about winning.
Harpootlian further said that there’s a sense that democracy won’t take hold in Iraq because they have no sense of what democracy entails.
Harpootlian couldn’t be further from the truth on either issue. Iraqis have made great strides in understanding and practicing democracy’s principles. That was a worry about 2 years ago, when liberals were asking how the Iraqis would avoid civil war and saying that they’ve never had democracy so how could they understand its workings.
As the saying goes, that was then, this is now. Iraqis have been running their government, they’ve held a pair of elections, they’ve written a Constitution that spells out the functions of the 3 separate branches of government.
The insinuation that Republicans want to abandon the Iraqis while withdrawing troops at a slower pace is insulting and Mr. Harpootlian should be ashamed for saying that. Instead, he’s probably happy at the slick sloganeering he pulled off with that one-liner.
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRing