Two Endorsements Worth Noting

Orson Scott Card is a liberal Democrat – he never speaks at a science fiction convention without slipping in a plug for income redistribution – who is voting Republican this year:

There is only one issue in this election that will matter five or ten years from now, and that’s the War on Terror.

And the success of the War on Terror now teeters on the fulcrum of this election.

If control of the House passes into Democratic hands, there are enough withdraw-on-a-timetable Democrats in positions of prominence that it will not only seem to be a victory for our enemies, it will be one.

Unfortunately, the opposite is not the case – if the Republican Party remains in control of both houses of Congress there is no guarantee that the outcome of the present war will be favorable for us or anyone else.

But at least there will be a chance.

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations.

But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it – and in the most damaging possible way – I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages.

To all intents and purposes, when the Democratic Party jettisoned Joseph Lieberman over the issue of his support of this war, they kicked me out as well. The party of Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan – the party I joined back in the 1970s – is dead. Of suicide.

On the other side of the partisan divide, Hassan Nasrallah, capo of the Hezbollah terrorists and the Iranian mullarchy’s man in Lebanon, looks forward to the aftermath of American abandonment of the war against the Middle Eastern mufsidun:

The Americans will gather their belongings and leave this region – the entire region. They have no future whatsoever in our region. They will leave the Middle East, and the Arab and Islamic worlds, like they left Vietnam. I advise all those who place their trust in the Americans to learn the lesson of Vietnam, and to learn the lesson of the South Lebanese Army with the Israelis, and to know that when the Americans lose this war – and lose it they will, Allah willing – they will abandon them to their fate, just like they did to all those who placed their trust in them throughout history.

He doesn’t mention Republicans or Democrats, but I think we know how Hassan would vote.

Comments

[Peter Hodges]

"He doesn’t mention Republicans or Democrats, but I think we know how Hassan would vote."

So much for respecting "good faith differences of opinion".

How very like you to repeat the "a vote for a democrat is a vote for the terrorists" rant. Never mind that it was Bush at the helm, ignoring all warnings, when the terrorists actually struck. Ask Condi if she happened to mention to the Prez her July '01 meeting with Tenet & Co. warning that an al Qaeda attack was imminent.

I have no doubt that when the Baker Plan for "Victory" in Iraq is finally unveiled you will applaud it as a very model of hard nosed strategy. No doubt it will include withdrawal in a measured pace with non-specific deadlines and a "hand-off" of responsibility to the natives. The fact that this plan will resemble every reasonable suggestion the Democrats have made from Murtha forward will go unmentioned.

How unfortunate it is that Mr. Baker has not been permitted to announce his plan before the election. Bush & Co. clearly did not want to have a real discussion on the inevitable prior to the vote, that would prove too costly. So they have cynically delayed it and once the votes are (or are not) counted, they will then lower the curtain on their sorry adventure.

Perhaps then we can turn our attention to Afghanistan, where the Taliban is resurgent and Osama bin Laden is once again plotting evil unattended.

pbh