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A 21st CENTURY DEMOCRAT I CAN RESPECT…..

Because he has his priorities straight, and is brave enough to stand up for what’s really important, rather than worry about what his friends might think.

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations.

But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it—and in the most damaging possible way—I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages.

To all intents and purposes, when the Democratic Party jettisoned Joseph Lieberman over the issue of his support of this war, they kicked me out as well. The party of Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan—the party I joined back in the 1970s—is dead. Of suicide.

After a fascinating analysis of the inter-relationships of Iran, Iraq and Syria, along with the Sunnis and the Shi’a, complicated by the Arab v. Persian situation in that region, he says this:

Bush’s game is to keep from letting any of these faction unite, while preparing to deliver strategic blows that can bring down the (Iranian) ayatollahs at relatively little cost….the victory that awaits us…remains possible for two reasons only:

1. America’s brilliant, brave, and well-trained military, which projects not just power but decency and compassion wherever our soldiers go, and

2. President George W. Bush, who, regardless of his critics and detractors, has steadfastly pursued the only course that holds the hope of victory without plunging us into a worldwide war with a united Islam or isolating America in a world torn by chaos.

Those are the scylla and charybdis that threaten us on either hand. If we do not win this containable war now, following the plan President Bush has set forth, we will surely end up fighting far bloodier wars for the next generation.

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Hat Tip: the INSTAPUNDIT

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