LEFTISTs, STALINISTs, COMMUNISTS, SAN FRANCISCANS, FRENCH, GERMANS, FRET OVER AMERICAN SUCCESS



Wesley Pruden hits the nail on the head in his recent Washington Times column:

The old lefties can't wait for the photographs and television footage of burned women and mutilated children, to see their country humiliated and their president branded a war criminal. But deep down they understand that time and circumstance are not likely to be kind to them this time. George W. is running a compassionately conservative war, going after Saddam and his evil cohort first and trying to shock and awe frightened Iraqi generals and their troops into going AWOL before the liberating army breaks up all the furniture. Demonstrators against the Vietnam War used to speculate on what would happen "if they gave a war and nobody came." Since it takes two to fight, there are early indications that this may be that war. This is the prospect that frightens George W.'s critics most of all.

Read it all here.