The Sage Forge

When the public is asked if they are in favor of the war in Iraq in surveys they say "No" by fairly wide margins.  They love this and widely report it at the Washington Post.  When the public is asked if they want to pull the troops out of Iraq they say "No" by wide margins.  This is an answer not much liked at the Post and reported alongside the weekly activities of local book clubs.  The former reporting has been used to fan a flame of disgust and reports like the one highlighted above are a part of this effort.

The use of herd mentality to drive public opinion is a sign that those who lead the media of the country have given up on education.  We are, so they believe, too stupid to be educated.  Never mind that we have long been addressing exactly the issues they claim we can't understand.  A look through the past articles of this blog will show how someone in no way directly connected to public policy has thought long and hard about these issues, heard the arguments of both sides, and concluded that the political Left is more interested in discrediting the United States than it is in achieving a sustainable peace.

The Left is telegraphing to the world their equivocation over our intention to stand by our promises.  People who depend on us for their very lives see that equivocation as a message of impending doom for those who persist in depending on us.  THEN the Left trumps what appears to be their failure to live up to their side of the bargain and uses that as an excuse to abandon those who remain loyal to OUR PROMISE.

In following the course above the Left is planning the murder by neglect of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of those who stood by us.  Why would anyone ever stand by us again after such a repudiation of our own honor?

The article is absolutely correct.  As far as America's political Left is concerned Success is Not an Option.  If they succeed in this failure don't expect them to stop with America's embarrassment.