George McGovern, that is, and how far it got him politically having a death wish on the issue of national defense.
Mr. McKissick appears to have a far better understanding of what it takes for toads to fear America:
Americans understand the importance of having the biggest stick in the global neighborhood. We know this instinctively to begin with, as it is part of our culture, but we also know it by way of over two hundred years of history. And nowhere do we find examples of where it has paid us to be weak, seem weak, or seem unwilling to defend ourselves and our interests with raw naked force if need be.Bravo.
The fact is that national security is, now more than ever, the central issue of our time. Given current circumstances and the enemies arrayed against us, it is an issue of life and death.
The resurgent liberals are pulling the Democrat party further to the left on the issue, while the vast majority of the American people are to the right of where they are now, let alone where the new radicals want to take them.
The last time this happened in such a major way was in 1972 with the rise of George McGovern and his defeat of former Vice-President Hubert Humphrey for the Democrat presidential nomination. The anti-war left took a scalp then too, (Humphrey’s), and the victory sent the Democrats into a political wilderness that they didn’t begin to exit from until Bill Clinton came along.
The current Democrat leadership is allowing itself to be led into repeating history. . . .
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Off [the Democrats] go to do political battle in November, armed with a foreign policy that’s been double dipped in estrogen.
The Colonel likewise thinks foreigners should fear America. We could care less whether they respect us.
In point of fact, fear = respect. Grasp that simple equation – and it is simple indeed – and you can then easily appreciate the folly of the perennial Democrat quest for a warm blankie.
"The New McGovernism." By Drew McKissick, Conservative Outpost, 8/18/06 (emphasis added).
2 comments:
American tolerance and forbearance toward other nations has largely been repaid in contempt or worse. It's high time we returned to Theodore Roosevelt's sort of international posture: one designed to make the adventurists of other lands ask themselves, "What will America think of this?" before setting out on any course.
I believe the Marines have as their informal motto, "No better friend, no worse enemy." It would serve the United States equally well.
I couldn't agree more. I hate today's default position: "What will the Muslim street/French/Archbishop of Canterbury think?"
It's exactly as you say. Our enemies (probably not including the Archbishop) need to be the ones who lie awake at night sweating our slightest caprice.
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