Posted by
Cory Glenn on Friday, April 27, 2007 10:35:46 PM
The war in Iraq is not going as planned, but what war does? “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”-General George S. Patton
The Democrats would have you believe that the war is not going as planned, but what they need is a lesson in history. A lesser enemy’s strategy is not to win battles, they fight war by attrition. General George Washington knew that in order for the War of Independence to succeed, Washington would have to keep his army together. Winning battles was not his goal.
An example of how the war of attrition works: On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered the Confederate Army to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House. This was the beginning of the “Reconstruction Period of the South” and the question on how they would rebuild the South. The South was still stinging from the loss of what they considered property i.e. the slaves. The South was not happy about the Northern occupation of the recently conquered rebellion states; they wanted things to return to the way they were and soon. This was the formation of the Ku Klux Klan, which was a domestic terrorist group whose sole purpose was to intimidate the freed slaves and the Northern occupiers. The Klan was willing to: threaten, rape, lynch, burn down stores and pillage. From 1865-77 this continued to wear on the morale of the Northerners who wanted the Civil War to fade into history. The South entered a treaty with the Northern states to withdrawal their troops. The Northern Army withdrew, the chance of justice was lost and the South fell to nearly 100 more years of domestic terrorism on the African Americans. The moral of the story is that eventually the Southern hostilities needed to be dealt with. Withdrawal cost many innocent lives. The insurgents in Iraq blowing up the innocent civilians are nothing new; the only thing new is the excuse the Democrats give that we cannot win. If we cut and run i.e. “redeploy” they are right, if we don’t fight we can’t win. But what Americans need to understand is that we toppled a regime. We cannot leave them in good conscience. Saddam Hussein is gone and that is a good thing. Iraqis are now holding free elections. They have a workable Constitution, that is tremendous when compared to the time it took the U.S. to frame one. The reality is war sucks, people die on both sides and you can’t win if you don’t fight. The Democrats need to fund the war, without setting dates for withdrawal or attaching a minimum wage bill to the funding bill. A final thought: four years of occupation is not that long. We are still in Japan, Germany and several other areas. If we leave they win. SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!
See the result of withdrawal:
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/ly
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