The Left has failed us

If anything, Friday  night’s attacks confirm how correct George W. Bush was in taking the fight to Al Qaeda and winning. He assembled the largest contingent of nations in world history —over 40 (significantly, France didn’t join)— 23 democrats, including Hillary Clinton and future democrat presidential nominee, John Kerry, voted for it. There were 17 UN resolutions supporting it. Eight of the largest intelligence services in the world said there was WMD in Iraq. In short, we were taking the fight to those trying to do us harm, after 9/11. And, we were trying to instill democracy as an alternative to radical Islam. Remember those Iraqis holding up their purple fingers after voting? It was working.

We’ve been here. All the things France’s Hollande is saying now — ‘it’s an act of war’/ ‘we’ll fight them’, etc. — been there, done that. If we had stayed the course in Iraq, under John McCain, we’d likely be safer.

But when the going got tough in 2006, the left got going. Feeling physically safer than in 2003, and with the Iraqi war not going well (the Civil War, WW2…none of them went well for many years), the left went to their old tried and true, “no war at no time” bromide and elected a man who promised to get us out of all entanglements even though we needed to be aggressively prosecuting them — just as Hollande, last night, committed to.

The man they elected, Obama, did not have the resume to be appointed head of a company with 5 employees, no less a country, at war, with over 325 million people. We see the results: not ten hours before ISIS pulled off yet another stunning attack last night, the president declared that the terror group was “contained”. We deserve the leadership we vote for.

The left's fecklessness goes beyond Obama. Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Bernie Sanders — they are all in concert in believing ISIS and terror is a police problem. We’ll do the best we can domestically, and bomb them here and there to give the appearance of engagement. But, Hillary et al — these aren't serious people and cannot be trusted to take the fight to the enemy and do something the left doesn’t like to do: WIN. Why? Because, iif someone “wins”, then someone “loses” and that would be “hurtful”. That's how these people think. It’s why obama and co. paved the way for the “death-to-america-chanting” Iranians to get a nuclear weapon: he wanted them to be in the 'family of nations'. ISIS wages war against the West and we're doing psychotherapy! How good do Democrat congressman feel today about voting for handing nukes to Iran after what happened last night?

The attack on France is what Israel goes through daily for close to 70 years. when Arafat turned down the Bill Clinton-brokered peace treaty (June, 2000) in which the Palestinians got 98% of what they demanded (still, without recognizing Israel!), Arafat started the Second Intifada, in which 1000 Israelis were blown up on a daily basis, in pizzeria's, on buses, etc. Considering the population differences (Israel has 7 million people, America, 325 million), that would be the equivalent of an uprising in this country where 50,000 people were killed. Did you read that? Every time 5 Israelis are stabbed or murdered —which is an everyday occurrence — that’s the equivalent of it happening to 50 people in France.Daily. And all Obama, Hillary, Kerry, the EU and Ban at the UN can do is blame Israel for building apartments in its own territory as the main cause for worldwide terror. Uh huh.

Finally, did you read the accounts from the survivors last night? In the concert hall a man described how 2 terrorists started firing their automatic weapons onto the crowd. People got down on the floor to protect themselves. Then, as described by a survivor, the shooters calmly reloaded their weapons with new clips and continued to fire. And again and again. The same thing happened in the Cambodian restaurant. France prides itself on having “strict” gun laws. If 2 people had guns, we wouldn't be looking at 128 dead. But, France is basically a “gun free zone” and those innocents on the floor of the concert hall last night weren't helped  much by the high-minded french gun laws, now were they? They waited to be executed. Enough said on the effectiveness of liberal gun laws. Those who kill love them most.

Finally, last night, i read a post from a very liberal friend of mine on Facebook. She said, referring to the French terror episode, “this is real. it’s not going to just take love”. How revealing. Yes, the era of “all you need is love” is now over. It was a nice song to sing in 1967 but for those on the left, it was THE foundational piece of how to be in the world. It explains why we have obnoxious, unappreciative ‘students’ making idiotic, vacuous demands on our campuses — it’s clear they needed a lot less love and a lot more spankings. The same is true of Medieval Islamists ( props to Jonah Goldberg for correctly naming who we are actually fighting). They don't need “love and understanding” (as Iran got, along with nukes and a larger wallet to fund terror), but, instead, a complete ass-kicking.

The left has failed us. We tried it their way. For close to 8 years. The results were evident Friday night in Paris. 51 weeks and counting…