Bush Sounding Like T.R.

President Bush spoke softly last night but carried a big stick. The message was clear: if Iran and Syria assist the insurgents in Iraq, they will be engaged. Now, you and I know that Iran will continue to engage American troops and try to disrupt our mission of stabilizing Iraq. And why not when it has the American leftist media as its ally, broadcasting our "failures" day in and day out?

The Left is comfortable with failure - they embrace it believing that if America is taken down a notch, we will be more equal/less dominant to the rest of the world and then the world might "like us" more. In Left World, it's more important to be liked than to be right. How many different versions of "cut and run" do we have to hear? Murtha's version? Ted Kennedy's? Harry Reid was *for* the surge before he was against it. Which Democrat actually wants us to win? Oh yeah, Joe Lieberman isn't a Democrat anymore!

To the Left's dismay and incredulity, President Bush doesn't care about being liked and his fingers aren't chapped, as are his adversaries, from waving them in the wind to see what the polls are saying.

If Bush's leftwing, idea-free, spineless critics had advised previous presidents, Harry Truman would have abandoned Korea, FDR would have pulled our troops out of Europe in 1942 (they're still there to this day), and Abraham Lincoln would have negotiated a settlement with the South.

In fact, the president's policy of engaging terror-sponsoring states is completely correct. Iran is now - justifiably - in the crosshairs. Not because Bush is a "warmonger" but precisely the opposite. The president does not want a wider war against us, or our allies, one waged with nuclear weapons that the Iranians are developing at warp speed. Major diplomatic efforts have been fostered by the Bush administration vis-à-vis Iran's nukes, but to no avail (did the EU get anywhere with them in four years of "negotiation"? No.)

The Left doesn't want to give the president credit for his diplomatic push - it would disrupt their obsessive hatred of him and Republicans in general.

So, the war will expand and rightfully so - Iran MUST be dealt with - the sooner the better Then, watch how quickly Iraq becomes stabilized, Lebanon resumes its budding democracy, Hamas gets the boot from the Palestinians, and the Iranian people overthrow the Mullahs.

I'm glad to know that while Democrats spend time talking about silly subjects like global warming, our president is concentrating on the global war that is being waged against us, which will only get worse if we disengage as the feckless Left wants us to. If they had an ounce of guts, Democrats would defund the war. But they don't and they wont.

Right now, radical Muslims are fighting Ethiopia, Israel, Russia, India, America, Iraq, Lebanon, Thailand, The Philippines ... shall I go on? Yet, the Left makes believe we're not really in a global war. And they call the president delusional!

As writer Jack Cashill says: "Ignorant of the past, our friends on the Left don't have a clue as to causes. Blind to the present, they don't see the need for solutions."