Posted by
Jay Noble on Monday, November 06, 2006 10:41:14 AM
This year’s mid-term elections are perhaps the most fateful in American history. The Republicans, the party in power, manifest classic symptoms of intellectual exhaustion and the abuse of office which comes with being too long in power. The Democrat party, the party out-of-power, has been hijacked by its most radical elements, from which many of its candidates have distanced themselves while running stealth races masquerading as conservatives.
In normal times the Democrats attaining a majority in one or both houses of Congress, while disagreeable, would not be dangerous to the national security. This year’s elections are so critical however, for one salient reason: the conflict with Islamic fascism. On this issue the Democrat party’s position is hazardous to the nation’s survival. The base of the Democrat party and most of its leadership do not consider the United States at war with Islamic fascists who are intent on our destruction. Rather than continuing the fight by all means against these barbarians who would murder our women and children at first opportunity, the Democrats would revert to the Clintonian model of treating the jihadists as a nuisance, a problem for the criminal justice system. Rather than engaging the forces of darkness and death abroad, far from the streets of New York or Los Angeles, the Democrats would retreat from Iraq (and will from Afghanistan also), leaving the terrorists the winners in the field. This course would result in the terrorists returning to the United States to attack us here, not to mention the bloodbath for those left behind. Even if one disagrees with the Iraq War, it cannot be denied that the jihadists are concentrating their efforts there, and while so occupied, they are not perpetrating attacks within America. The Democrats believe that Islamic fascists and fundamentalists can be talked to and negotiated with. While always on the ready to criticize Christian fundamentalists as fanatics to be denigrated and walled off, Democrats seem incapable of recognizing true fanaticism when the religion is Islam. Democrats fail to understand that there is no negotiating or reasoning with this enemy, which must be defeated and destroyed.
There are many good policy reasons important to conservatives for Republicans retaining control of Congress, particularly the Senate which confirms Federal judges. However, the overriding reason that Republicans must be retain a majority of the Congress is that Democrats simply cannot be trusted with the protection of the nation. Everything in their intellectual and ideological fabric argues against the Democrat party supporting the actions essential to defeating the jihadists.
An old joke is that a man should vote as if his life depended on it. This year, the joke is no laughing matter. The American people cannot turn away from this enemy and retreat and expect to be left alone. The jihadists consider themselves at war with us and they will not relent in their efforts to kill us regardless of the results of our elections. This election will decide if we will continue to carry the fight to the enemy or if the enemy will bring the fight to us.