Thursday, June 23, 2005

Pelosi’s Narrow View

Congresswoman Pelosi demonstrates the key difference in Left vs. Right perceptions:

On Tuesday, Mrs. Pelosi and three other top Democrats called for a commission to investigate reported abuses of detainees from the war on terror. Mrs. Pelosi said it is past time that the administration established a policy on determining the fates of the detainees at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, arguing that most are from Afghanistan and that the conflict there has ended.
“I assume that the war in Afghanistan is over, or is the contention that you have that it continues?” she said to a reporter.
A few moments later, she said: “This isn’t about the duration of the war. The war in Afghanistan is over.”

Basically, in Pelosi’s view, since the “war” in Afghanistan is over, the detainees should be released as prisoners of that “war.”

This is exactly wrong. Afghanistan is not an isolated war. Iraq is not an isolated war. They are campaigns in the Global War on Terror (GWOT).

We didn’t say WWII was over after we drove the Gerrmans out of North Africa. It wasn’t over when we knocked Italy out of the war, or liberated the Philippines, or even when we defeated the Third Reich. It was over when Japan surrendered, and the last of the Axis powers was defeated.

This war will not be over until the terrorists themselves give up or are defeated. That means Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and anywhere else Islamofascism is hiding. It’s been a long time since the Thirty Years War, but we may be in it for that length of time. Clearly, people like Pelosi can’t handle it, but that’s the harsh truth.

Posted by Matt on 06/23 at 11:56 AM
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