California Conservative

Harry Reid is finally showing us the Democrats’ true colors. Sen. Reid has now said that Iraq is lost. In saying this, Reid has now positioned the Democrats as the ‘Party of Defeat’.

“I believe…that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week,” Reid told journalists. Reid said he had delivered the same message to US President George W. Bush on Wednesday, when the US president met with senior lawmakers to discuss how to end a standoff over an emergency war funding bill.

“I know I was the odd guy out at the White House, but I told him at least what he needed to hear … I believe the war at this stage can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically.”

There’s no other way to say this: Reid is an idiot. He’s said that we’re in the middle of a civil war, something that I don’t believe. Just for the sake of argument, though, let’s accept that premise. If there is a civil war, how can the war be won economically? No businessman will commit capitol to building businesses in a war-torn city. I’d further ask Sen. Reid how anything can be accomplished politically if Shia and Sunnis are at each other’s throats?

This is best categorized as mindless drivel from Sen. Reid. The scariest part of this is that Reid’s views are the dominant position within the Democratic Party. The bottom line in all this is that Democrats would return us to the defeatist foreign policy days of Sen. McGovern and Jimmy Carter. We can’t afford that. Anyone who knows history will tell you that Carter’s foreign policy spawned the global jihadist movement.

It’s time that we start working towards getting idiots like Sen. Reid fired the next time they’re up for re-election. We can’t afford having ‘leaders’ like Reid in charge of anything.

Technorati Tags: Harry Reid, Iraq War, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Civil War, Defeatocrats, Foreign+Policy

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 19th, 2007 at 3:20 pm and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, Election 2008, Foreign Policy, Homeland Security, Military, Subversives, Terrorism, W. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.