Weekend Roundup

As we make the run up to election day now is crunch time for both parties as their machinery hits full gear. I hear many ask what has gone wrong with the Dems, they are so soft on our enemies and would rather try to appease them and buy them off? They just don't understand a position of weakness gets you nowhere in life or politics. Jeffrey Lord has written an excellent piece for The American Spectator that chronicles the Democratic Party's descent into lefty lunacy starting in 1968, of all years. It also illustrates why Americans in general don't trust the Dems with National Security and they continue to prove why on a daily basis.
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Acts of submission.

The term was Winston Churchill's description of the different methods that had been employed by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his supporters to appease Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini in the 1930's. Chamberlain was appeasing, Churchill said, "in the hope that by great and far-reaching acts of submission, not merely in sentiment and pride, but in material matters, peace may be preserved." He went on to warn, correctly, of just how foolish and dangerous this would be to England.

If followed in a linear fashion, through the maze of late 20th century American history, personalities and politics the real reason why ex- President Clinton has so many critics over his policies dealing with terrorism, the reason why this fall's midterm election brings another blistering critique of Democrats on national security issues is that, like Chamberlain and company, they have a history of "acts of submission." It is a very decided and by now very defined pattern of acts of submission by modern Democrats to foreign threats from Communism to Islamic fascism.

Let's start with the night of Wednesday, August 28th, 1968. On that night the Democratic Party, America's oldest, begins to implode.

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And then there is this great article by Daniel Henninger on the OPJ. It appears that every one of their election tactics is crumbling underthem and the DNC can't figure out why, which is a good thing. Even Woodwards latest book is proving to be just a compilation of all the bad old news, nothing new not even a new spin. They are more concerned if a terrorist thug is humiliated than if innocents are saved because of it, despiccable. I am thankful the GOP was able to push through the Detainee Act. Here is a cut from Daniel's article
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But at this late stage of the campaign, Iraq-as-failure has become the central narrative in the Democrats' strategy. A memo sent out to Democrats last week by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner, a strategy group led by former Clinton pollster Stan Greenberg, discusses Mr. Bush's "failure in Iraq, which energized Democrats and dispirited Republicans." It urges Democrats: "On Iraq, stress Bush/GOP 'mismanagement' and need for a 'new direction.' "
There is general agreement in Democratic circles that the party made a mistake by not confronting the national-security issue more forcefully in 2002 and 2004. Paul Begala cited the two elections on the "Today" show Monday and said al Qaeda is "coming back to get us because of the failed policies of George Bush."

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So what is the Democrat's New Direction? Is it retreat in defeat as many of them and their loony base want as a lesson to our imperialist dreams? Or do we stand up fifty million people after decades of violence and see them through to a brighter future or turn them over to the vicious killers of radical islam?

Amir Taheri, as prolific as ever has several articles worth reading at Benador Associates site on Iran, Iraq and Lebanon. There is much to be found at this site regarding the Middle East, one of my favorite sources, scroll around a bit and tell me what you think.
Don't miss this interview with Ken Mehlman, RNC leader with Human Events