Christina’s Common Sense

When it comes to Iraq, it’s hard to separate the spin from the reality. Many of us—and I was among their number for some time—find ourselves scratching our heads and wondering what to believe. On one hand, our friends in the military tell us that everything’s going well and they’re proud of their mission. On the other, we’ve got the likes of the Clinton News Network and PMSNBC telling us that this is all a catastrophe and we should cut and run before we create more terrorists. You know, like the police create more criminals by throwing people in jail.

Victor Davis Hanson, as usual, brilliantly cuts through the horse hockey to the truth. And I’m not biased or anything just because he’s in tight with my school. Here, Hanson shows us how despite the disastrous reports we get from the mainstream media, our War on Terror in general and Iraq specifically is right and in our national interest.

One of the biggest arguments against the Iraq War is that America is intervening where she has no business. But like it or not, the world has changed since the 1800s. Since the invention of a nasty little bugger known as the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, isolationism isn’t a good idea anymore. The reality is that American intervention is changing minds in the Middle East about Osama bin Laden and suicide bombing. These things made them our enemies, and now they are losing their stronghold on the Middle East. You’d have to be a complete fool—or a liberal—to not see that this is good for America. Iraq is not another Vietnam, and as long as this is the case it never will be.

On the subject of freedom, I want one of these. But I’ll probably have to wait for a cubic zirconia knockoff.

Early this morning, a bomb struck a recruiting station in New York City. Had the explosion taken place during business hours, it would likely have proved fatal to anyone in the building.

I have to wonder why it is that any crime against a black, a woman, a homosexual, or any other professional victim groups are denounced as hate crimes while a bomb in a recruiting station—you know, where people are recruited to defend professional victims’ rights to be professional victims—is called a small bomb that did no damage. People could have been killed, and it attracts less indignation than Paul Shanklin’s parody “Barack the Magic Negro” (which was based on an actual article in the LA Times).

We need know nothing more about where the Left’s loyalties lie than that they are quicker to defend the likes of Al Sharpton than David Petraeus. Since liberals don’t seem to hold our military in very high regard, I wonder how they’d like to live in a world without it? Hm?

To quote Albert Brennaman in Hitch: “Think it over.”