Enzo wrote:The sins of one man are not diminished by the sins of another. CLinton has nothing to do with what Bush is doing now. If Clinton was Satan incarnate, it still has nothing to do with whether Bush is right or wrong.
As true as this statement is, the fact still remains that all of the Democratic candidates stress urgency about getting out of Iraq which is the same sort of policy that Bill Clinton had in Mogadishu. So, instead of looking back, let's look at the here and now and, more importantly, towards the future.
If you will notice, Hillary was all about ending the war in Iraq until she was called to the White House to have a meeting with Bush. He basically told her that "politics are politics and I know you want to say what you feel you need to say to get elected, but if you are president you are going to have to deal with this and you might regret what you are saying now..." and he laid out the facts of what a pull-out meant. He probably showed her that the opposite of what a lot of people think is true. And that is simply that the troop surge has led to peace not a troop reduction or pull-out.
So a parallel can easily be drawn here. And that is what I was doing. Clinton's pull out emboldened our enemies. The passive, liberal view is a failed ideology.
If we don't look back at history, we will never learn.
The liberals thought that Jimmy Carter's passive approach would lead to peace. THey were wrong. The liberals thought that Regan's strong military and aggressive tone would lead to war. They were wrong.
We have to learn from the past.
Hillary has not talked about ending the war in Iraq since her face-to-face with the president. She changed her tone. She changed her view. How about the rest of us?