Cheat-Seeking Missles

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Total Victory The Only Option

Have you seen the "Iraq is Arabic for Vietnam" bumper stickers? Have you wondered, as I have, why some want their country to fail, why some want clearly reprehensible and dangerous enemies to win?

Have you wondered if any of these wrong-thinking people have considered sending a batch of their new bumper stickers to Ayman al-Zawahri, al Qaeda's No. 2 man in Iraq? After all, it was al-Zawahri who wrote to aQ's chief blood-letter in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi:
"Things may develop faster than we imagine. The aftermath of the collapse of American power in Vietnam — and how they ran and left their agents — is noteworthy. ... We must be ready starting now."
Does the American Left really want what al-Zawahri says the next step after an American withdrawal without victory will be? Do they even know the plan? Here it is, from AP's report on al-Zawahri's 13-page letter to his chief thug:

"It has always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established ... in the heart of the Islamic world," al-Zawahri wrote.

The letter laid out his long-term plan: expel the Americans from Iraq, establish an Islamic authority and take the war to Iraq's secular neighbors, including Lebanon, Jordan and Syria.

The final stage, al-Zawahri wrote, would be a clash with Israel, which he said was established to challenge "any new Islamic entity."
Does the Left think that if the Islamofascists are this successful, they will stop at Israel?

The letter confirms what is evident from the study of recent US military campaigns: Only a complete defeat of aQ will be a victory. If we leave a country behind that is unable to defend itself from an enemy we leave behind, then the Islamofascists will see it as a victory and continue to pursue their goals.

The letter leaves us no option but to print our own bumper stickers that say "Iraq is Arabic for Hitler in the bunker, Mussolini hanging from the building, and Hirohito stripped of godhood."

OK, it's a bit long, but they'll get the point.