If you ever have left home on a chilly morning without your shoes, you know what it felt like the other week when the noted global warrior B.H. Obama summarily closed down the Iraqi war.
Breaking with an American tradition that extends no farther back than 1789, B. H. carelessly forgot his shoes on a chilly morning. He neglected to declare victory. Silly him.
Perhaps he was caught up in the fever of Ronpaulism that has infected our country for the past month.
Scarcely a baby-sized protest has been aroused. The newspapers we read most and the news programs we watch daily treated the retreat as a hiccup, lambasting President Bush for starting the war, lionizing President Obama for heroically stamping it out.
Victory? Pish-posh. How yesterday. It’s like shopping at Sears or, heaven forfend, Wal-Mart, which the angry Left vilifies even more. In a nutty era of “leading from behind,” victory in war is silly putty for traditionalists.
Winning Is Nothing
Winning wars used to be paramount. Can you imagine how ordinary Americans would have reacted 66 years ago last spring if the nearly-dead President Roosevelt had issued an order to bring all of our troops home immediately and melt back into civilian life without trumpeting victory?
Ah, sniff the fragrant blossoms of summer because, as Edith and Archie used to sing every Saturday night, Those Were the Days.
Last month, the mental outpatient Joe Biden, who plays Vice President when B. H. can find the handcuffs, told readerless Newsweek magazine that the Taliban was not our enemy. It was a feeler by the administration to see what kind of reaction the nutty comment would attract. Turns out both Newsweek readers died on the same day. Therefore, the national response was flat. “Goody,” said the erudite Noted Global Warrior.
Resultingly, word emerged over the weekend that Mr. Obama, after sweeping his gaze across the world, selected the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood’s No. 1 jurist to negotiate a slinking American withdrawal from good, old Afghanistan.
Here is the amazing report from Andy McCarthy, former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, now an essayist at National Review:
The surrender is complete now. The Hindu reports that the Obama administration has turned to Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s leading jurist, to mediate secret negotiations between the United States and the Taliban. …
For those who may be unfamiliar with him, he is the most influential Sunni Islamist in the world, thanks to such ventures as his al-Jazeera TV program (Sharia and Life) and website (IslamOnline.net). In 2003, he issued a fatwa calling for the killing of American troops in Iraq. …
Qaradawi urges that Islam must dominate the world, under a global caliphate governed by sharia. He maintains that Islam “will conquer Europe [and] will conquer America.” …
After thousands of young Americans have laid down their lives to protect the United States from jihadist terror, President Obama apparently seeks to end the war by asking Qaradawi, a jihad-stoking enemy of the United States, to help him strike a deal that will install our Taliban enemies as part of the sharia state we have been building in Afghanistan. If the Hindu report is accurate, the price tag will include the release of Taliban prisoners from Gitmo — an element of the deal Reuters has also reported. The administration will also agree to the lifting of U.N. sanctions against the Taliban, and recognition of the Taliban as a legitimate political party (yes, just like the Muslim Brotherhood!). In return, the Taliban will pretend to forswear violence, to sever ties with al-Qaeda, and to cooperate with the rival Karzai regime.
It would mark one of the most shameful chapters in American history.
As the guessing game resumes — which country in the whole world does Mr. Obama care about most? — the Associated Press reported Saturday that the dastardly “President” Karzai, Afghanistan’s defective mental response to Brain Surgeon Biden, does read Newsweek. He smilingly digested the Brain Surgeon’s “We Surrender America to You” line about the Taliban.
“I am very happy the American government has announced that the Taliban are not their enemies,” said Karzai. “We hope this message will help the Afghans reach peace and stability.”
Poof. What a wonderful way to declare the end of war and obviate a need to claim victory. Just brand your enemy your brother.
