VDH on tonight’s presidential discussion:
Rather than talk for ten minutes in soaring platitudes, we need 20 seconds devoted to the notion that we will win, the Taliban will lose, and Afghanistan will be secured.
Last fall, Americans had an opportunity to choose between a man who would see us through to victory in our wars, and a pseudo-academic who would give us endless lectures about how complicated our problems are and would spend months dithering before making a decision that can be summarized as, “I’m going to up the ante now, but announce that I shall dither again at a predetermined date in the future.”
In the meantime, American soldiers will die, our enemies will circle dates on their calendars, backwards tribesmen will make calculations about who to support based on who they think will still be around in two years, and citizens of this republic will no doubt be subjected to dozens of similar boring lectures. To those Americans who decided they disliked George Bush so much that they’d vote for any ham-and-egger with a D behind his name: Thanks!
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