After Reflection, It's Time to Carry-on

Ok, so the republicans lost the majority. But we're still here. And we need to speak louder than before since we are not the balance.

As we feared, and as was stated by the conservative media, the Democrats have started to take steps and to indicate that they are going to surrender. They may not, still. They may not be able to with slim margins in the House and Senate. There are still many democrats who believe that we need to be victorious in Iraq. But the new leadership is sending out messages that they want hand victory to the enemy. A victory that will be far more painful that 9/11 some day.

Josh Treviño at The Claremont Institute writes:

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Kaplan's essay, reprinted here, invokes two military debacles of the recent past: Beirut in 1983, and Mogadishu in 1993. Each featured a shocking toll of Americans killed in spectacular fashion, and each saw a swift American withdrawal thereafter. The respective retreats were justified by the political leadership on the grounds that the American people had thereby turned against the mission. Kaplan demolishes this rationale, noting that in each case, American popular support for decisive action rose in the aftermath of the respective tragedies, collapsing only after the political leadership decided to withdraw. This pattern is shown to hold true even against the mythos of Vietnam: Americans turned away from that cause not because of the toll in young men, but because they lost their belief in the political leadership's will or ability to win.
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Don't let this history be repeated again. We know all too well what happened on 9/11.