Once again, Frank Rich got it right today. He writes that until a big time Republican Senator, a guy like Sen John Warner, says "No" to Bush on Iraq, he'll just keep surging and rearranging the goal post.
As Rich points out, Warner, has
"signaled his regret that he was not more outspoken during Viet Nam. 'We kept surging in those years,' he told the Washington Post in January, as the Iraq surge began. 'It didn't work'" said Warner.
Here is the way to contact Senator Warner. It won't help to be angry or threatening. Neither would be likely to work anyway: he was tough enough to marry Elizabeth Taylor after all. Instead, please let him know that waiting for a more conclusive failure to our efforts in Iraq can only add to the number of casualties.
Please e-mail Senator Warner, and ask him to Just Say No.
Another cowardly Senator’s convictions are altered by the expediency of a looming 2008 reelection campaign.
Rich, and many others, fail to grasp that disunity on the home front did not end the war in Vietnam when the enemy was thoroughly defeated, but rather extended the war and added ten thousand names to the wall as Communists of the north began to realize that what was not winnable on the field of combat could be won by simply waiting for pressure from the American left to drive political and military decisions. There is a straight line from our retreat in Southeast Asia through our retreats in Beirut and Somalia to September 11. How do we know this to be true? Bin laden has said so. Likewise, there will be a straight line from a retreat in Iraq to future catastrophes that await us. “Muslims will always follow the strongest horse”. Osama Bin Laden.
I wonder if Warner voted for the 87 billion before he voted against it.
Posted by: rick | June 25, 2007 at 11:49 AM