THE SURRENDER LOBBY

THE SURRENDER LOBBY



July 13, 2007 -- A new intelligence report prepared by the National
Counterterrorism Center apparently concludes that al Qaeda is re-
energized, and growing increasingly confident that it can stage
successful terrorist attacks against the West.
And Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says al Qaeda's
"level of intent remains high."

But is it any surprise that Osama bin Laden's thugs are feeling good
about their prospects - what with Democrats (and not a few
Republicans) working so hard to turn over the entire Middle East to
them?

For now, al Qaeda is operating from ungoverned areas in Pakistan,
having been expelled from Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11.

Yet the surrender lobby on Capitol Hill is hard at work creating the
likelihood of a new secure base for al Qaeda - in Iraq.

That is precisely what President Bush meant yesterday when he declared
that "as difficult as the fight is, the cost of defeat would be
higher."

Allowing Congress to run the war "is a prescription for failure," Bush
said. Which is why he rightly maintains that "troop levels will be
decided by our commanders on the ground, and not by political figures
in Washington, D.C."

It's reassuring to see the president stand firm on Iraq, in the face
of an onslaught from Democrats and the national news media - not to
mention a growing number of weak-kneed Republicans up for re-election
next year.

These senators don't want to wait for September, when Gen. David
Petraeus is to report to Congress on the progress of the current troop
surge. They want a reduction of U.S. troops now - and several already
are joining the Democrats' grossly irresponsible efforts to force the
president's hand.

This despite the fact that evidence from Iraq shows the surge - whose
full strength has only been in operation for a month - is succeeding.

To be sure, political progress is less steady. The White House
yesterday released a report saying the nascent Iraqi regime has met
only eight of 18 benchmarks. But to expect anything different, given
the ongoing level of daily violence, simply was unrealistic to begin
with.

Besides, as Ryan Crocker - the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad, who has
served administrations of both parties - argues, "the longer I'm here,
the longer I'm persuaded that Iraq cannot be analyzed by these kinds
of discrete benchmarks."

Democrats, meanwhile, have given up even pretending that a
congressionally imposed bug-out won't produce a bloodbath on the scale
of the nightmare inflicted on South Vietnam and Cambodia the last time
they forced an American president to pull out of an unpopular war.

Indeed, they understand full well what would happen - but don't care.

That a growing number of Republicans are more concerned with their own
re-election than with the consequences of a forced withdrawal is
tragic.

Years from now, the president predicted yesterday, when people "visit
old, tired me down there in Crawford, I will be able to say I looked
in the mirror and made decisions based upon principle, not based upon
politics."

Will any of the Capitol Hill surrender lobby be able to say the same?




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