A history lesson for Liberal, Cut and Run, Democrats.
Earlier we learned about
the American battle against the Islamic Terrorists of the Barbary Coast in the 1800s.
There are two more important lessons. 1) we can work with moderate Muslims as allies, and 2) we should not abandon those allies!
After a month of defensive fighting to keep the fort at Derna, where the first American Flag was raised on foreign soil, “the USS Constellation arrived with news that the United States had signed a peace treaty with the Pasha in Tripoli.
[General] Eaton was ordered to evacuate with his Christian forces, Hamet, and a handful of the former pasha's retainers. The rest of Eaton's army was to be abandoned” (Seitz).
“The news was a crippling blow to Hamet,
whose long-held mistrust of American intentions was confirmed.” Hamet was our Arab ally. General Eaton was now being told to abandon him. “Eaton protested that his orders went against his sense of "duty or decency”,” but following orders, they snuck out of town in the middle of the night. “Most of those who remained in Derna either fled or were later massacred by a vengeful Pasha.”
We should not abandon the new democratic Iraqi government! Instead, why not eliminate our common enemy? Why give the enemy fertile territory to regroup and grow stronger? What ever the plan is, it should not be “Cut and Run” abandonment!
As Gary Bauer says, “The only people who want to see America run from the Middle East are Osama bin Laden, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the “blame America first” crowd on the radical Left.”
Think about the justice that has been served and the freedoms granted to the Iraqi people. All could be undone if we retreat now. Should we face down our enemy now, or save the battle for our children? As Mark Taylor says, “unless we change the way we are fighting the Islamic insurgent enemy, our children are destined to battle the same enemy twenty years from now. The only difference is that, twenty years hence, he will be stronger, wealthier and better organized and equipped. God save our kids.”
This is a different, uglier war. “The cowardly terrorists we battle will not stand up and fight our military like the valiant warriors they purport to be. They not only hide behind women and children, they fire upon us from mosques and then, when that fire is rightly returned, they scream to the media that we desecrated their “holy sites”. Never mind that Islamist insurgents destroy Christian churches in Iraq. After all, they are only churches. But our soldiers absolutely cannot destroy a mosque even if it means saving American lives to do so” (Taylor).
It is a difficult balance to keep the moral high ground while fighting an enemy that has no moral value. This is another reason to stay along side our Iraqi allies and see this conflict through, so that they can see the virtues of freedom and democracy, and so that justice may be dispensed on those that would bring death, hatred, and oppression to Iraq and eventually our homes. (
Romans 13:4)
I pray our President has the courage and foresight to see this conflict through. I pray that the American public at large has the moral courage to support him. And I pray for peace and freedom for the Iraqi people.
Works cited:
Bauer, Gary. “Surge or Surrender?”. American Values. End of Day Report. Emailed: 1/8/07.
http://www.ouramericanvalues.org/Seitz, Barr. “Barbary Glory, Barbary Shame”. About.com Military History.
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/ustripolitanwar/a/barbaryglory_2.htmTaylor, Mark R. “Unleash Our Warriors While There Is Still Time”. Family Security Matters. Posted: January 4, 2007:
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/homeland.php?id=559851********************************************************************
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