Winning A War

No doubt, you have heard of the book How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie. If I were to title this post out long-hand, it whould read How To Win A War And Make It Look Like A Loss or How To Lose A War, Even Though We Are Winning. Either one is fitting, or could be a subtitle for the other.

The writer of this book could be one of many: George Soros, Michael Moore, or even Barack Obama himself (just to name a few). They all subscribe to the same ideology. So. when we review the Left Wing's many statements/claims over the past five years, we can see many of these people that share this "collective" philosophy have been promoting this myth for the duration.

Even today with al Qaida Iraq and the Mahdi Army on the ropes, we hear that we are in a war that we cannot win. We hear that in a Hillary or Obama presidency, we can certainly expect immediate withdrawal, beginning within the first few months of either candidate's administration.

Well, here's something that doesn't happen when an enemy is winning the war. Take a look at this article about the al Qaida #2's latest recruiting drive.

Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri criticised Muslims for failing to support Islamist insurgencies in Iraq and elsewhere in a new audiotape posted Tuesday on the Internet.

What this says is not easy to decipher, if one is biased or incredibly dull in the critical thinking department. If there was no way to win this war, why would Zawahiri be chastising Muslims for NOT supporting jihad against the infidel Americans? Normally when an enemy (as given over to lies and propaganda as these are) is winning they proclaim it from the rooftops and from every corner. Even when they aren't winning, they usually proclaim that they are (SEE: Baghdad Bob).

But here, AQ sounds very desperate for volunteers. They seem to understand that many of their brothers have been killed or captured. They see the Iraqis purging the enemies of the Iraqi state and it is well-known they are doing it systematically, one by one, and doing it with less American intervention. First, AQ was severely weakened and now, we are seeing the Mahdi Army taking its hits. This cannot spell success for anyone other than the Iraqi nation.

Last year at this time, the Left was proclaiming the Iraqis were incapable of policing themselves and were in the midst of a civil war, created by George Bush's illegal invasion of a sovereign nation. Even I was beginning to have doubts about the ability of the Iraqis to take responsibility for their own security. But today, there is success despite the fact that there are still some setbacks from time to time. If there wasn't, we would not be hearing this kind of plea from Zawahiri or anyone else involved in international terrorism.

Additionally, there are threats coming from the coward insurgent leader al Sadr while he is based in Iran. Why? Because he knows that his cause is losing more and more influence, as more of his army is killed or captured for failing to disarm.

With all of this fragility abounding at the same time so much progress has been made in the critical areas, why the hell would any intelligent person even begin to entertain the notion of pulling out now?