Oracle Commentaries  6/22/2005
 Guerillas in the Midst
If there were any doubts, they can now be put to rest. The United States military is officially caught in the crossfire in a two-front war. It's bad enough that our soldiers have to travel thousands of miles in order to meet the terrorist enemy head-on, but now that a segment of the American population has officially declared war against America's finest, our soldiers also have to worry about being knifed in the back by an enemy thousands of miles away.

Making the situation infinitely worse is the fact that those wearing desert fatigues have no means to defend themselves from the relentless assault by the American Menace.

Unfortunately these radicals just don't get it. In their view, America's use of force is always the result of a vast conspiratorial entity bent on world domination, and those at the tip of the spear, who actually exert that force, are sadistic miscreants.

But what else is new? These ingrates have been kicking America while she was down and throwing salt in her wounds for over a generation. As far as they're concerned, America and its fighting echelon are imperialists continually in search of glory and willing to acquire foreign treasure at any cost.

As usual, their claims are based on little else than their own misguided opinion, and what they consider the "big picture" is actually just a sliver of reality. But even this tiny piece of reality is founded upon their perpetual refusal to see the obvious. (I think the medical term for such a symptom is brainwashed.)

With the "stories" they tell, one has to wonder: Do they really believe what they are saying? Is it possible that they could view the world (or view America) with such inaccuracy, or do they have an ulterior motive? One could go a long way in making the argument that their agenda is to sprinkle a little truth onto a seven-course lie and feed it to anyone willing to take a bite. A little sugarcoating can go a long way in disguising a rotten meal. Though one has to wonder, what kind of a person can actually take a bite and still savor the taste?

Enter Adolf Hitler.

According to the most famous socialist leader the planet has ever seen, "[People] more readily fall victim to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously."

Without doubt, every American would immediately condemn the practices of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime, yet there is a fringe element "left" in America that consistently uses the same techniques.

Enter Dick Durbin.

According to the "distinguished" senator for Illinois, the American military is a modern day extension of Nazism. While he is of course entitled to promote whatever view he wishes, the silence from his supporters is deafening. One can only assume his views speak for others.

Not surprisingly, Durbin and his posse have detested the American military since Vietnam. However it's only been recent that he and his clan have sunk to the level of comparing the U.S. military to Nazis operating a Gulag. Unfortunately for him, there's really nothing left to say. Once you've made the comparison to Nazis, there's really no greater insult to bring. Unfortunately for the military, he's already said too much.

How strange it is that Durbin et al are the same people who feel the need to constantly remind the rest of us just how much they "support" the troops. When they're not making false accusations about American soldiers committing war crimes against confirmed enemy combatants or destroying America's will to fight by labeling every American conflict since Vietnam a quagmireor encouraging the enemy with outlandish accusations that America simply cannot win, they can't stop talking about how much they "support" the troops.

In fact, they try so hard to convince everyone of their unending support for the troops that it couldn't be any more obvious they've taken the Hitler playbook and put it into action. And we wonder why the military voted overwhelmingly for George W. Bush, the same guy who supposedly took us to an illegal and un-winnable war. (Does Durbin honestly expect us to believe that our all-volunteer military is that gullible?)

We can only imagine how much more successful America's efforts in Iraq would be if it had full support from back home or how much faster the troops would be home if there was unanimous support to finish what has been started in Iraq (whether we champion that cause or not).

Don't get me wrong; unlike the extremists in Durbin's camp, I believe the American military will ultimately prevail and that a new Iraqi Defense Force will soon be able to provide security without actual American boots on the ground. However, I believe whole-heartedly that this mission would be accomplished much faster if the Dick Durbins of the world would simply stop rallying the enemy. It doesn't take a lot of common sense to realize that there would be fewer coalition and Iraqi casualties if Durbin and those like him would stop "supporting" the same people they unceasingly and psychotically claim to "support." (That is, the United States military.)

When military operations are over, we can spend an eternity second-guessing our involvement in Iraq, and those who blame it all on Bush can flay him until their thirst for his blood has been quenched.

Yet that kind of thinking is simply lost Dick Durbin. Why? Well, as stated previously, there is a radical fringe of Americans consumed with hatred. Hatred for the president, hatred for the military, hatred for everything not basted in liberalism. Though they try to disguise that hatred with patriotic rhetoric and unyielding "support," their actions are those of incompetent guerilla fighters. They conduct sneak attacks on an unsuspecting opposition (in this case the United States military) and then, without fleeing the scene, actually have the audacity to proclaim their unyielding support despite the smoking gun in their hand. (Even the terrorists flee after committing such atrocities. But then again, American forces are allowed to return fire when dealing with those savages.)

It must be terrifying for the American Menace to consider what would happen if America succeeds in Iraq. For starters, there wouldn't be any more midnight house calls by Saddam's secret police on innocent Iraqi families who are subsequently forced from their homes and then butchered in the desert. (Wait! That has already been stopped. But according to Durbin it is America's military that is the Nazi war machine, not Saddam's modern day "SS" troops that America has already destroyed.)

But a free Iraq, a capitalist Iraq, would initiate prosperity in that region and ease tensions on Israel. A capitalist Iraq would increase the standard of living for 25 million people and reconnect them to the real world. It would allow them state-of-the-art medicine and perhaps the food they never received during the UN Oil for Food scam.

A capitalist Iraq would expose 25 million Middle Easterners to the joy of having a possible future, of having hope. And more importantly, a capitalist Iraq would act as the biggest detractor to radical Islam, that violent sect which preys incessantly upon young men and children, depriving them of hope and exposing them only to the evils of the Great Satan. Contrary to radical Islam's belief and Senator Durbin's, there is another side to America's story, a side that a capitalist Iraq would actually be exposed to if and when America succeeds. Of course the list of positives that a free Iraq would have on the Middle East goes on and on and on.

The question for Dick Durbin is what is so wrong with a free Iraq? What is so evil about America providing the chance for a nation to once again have hope in an area of the world where hope has been extinguished for over a generation? Is it that the Iraqis aren't worth the amount of hope America can bring them, or does Durbin simply think there isn't enough hope to go around? Perhaps he's worried that Iraqi family values will usher in a Middle East culture that is pro-life, pro-American, and pro-ductive.

Why should anyone be surprised at the misguided views of Senator Durbin? This is, after all, the same man who voted against the ban on partial birth abortion and against America's UN approved intervention to remove Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait in 1991. If he couldn't find it in his heart to stop the murderous rampage directed by Saddam Hussein on innocent Kuwaiti civilians (not to mention the innocent Iraqi civilians) or the murderous rampage directed at American children during the final stage of pregnancy (in some cases during the final hours), how on earth does he expect us to believe that he "supports" the troops in their desperate time of need?
 

Brian Dotzler

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