| Published: Waubonsee Insight |
| Date: November 2006 |
| Section: Opinion/Editorial |
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By: Ian Essling
Americans love fast results. The quicker we can get something, the better. Our culture has become so obsessed with speed that it is often the deciding factor when making a decision. Who cares how shoddy a product is if we can get it fast?
After the 2006 midterm election, it appears that Americans have let their obsession with fast results cloud their judgment. Voters all over the country abandoned reason and fact and fell for false promises and insults.
Democrats used the campaign strategy of "we're not the Republicans" to take over the House and Senate; however, it's no secret that the Republican seats were mostly lost due to the Iraq war.
Most voters agreed that the Iraq war was a primary concern for them at the polls, but the problem is, most voters also don't understand the facts and implications of pulling out of the Iraq war.
They don't realize that a long-term engagement against terrorism is not going to be over tomorrow.
Anyone that thought we were going to go into Iraq, knock Saddam off his Kurd-slaughtering pedestal and then leave within a couple of days is in need of a serious reality check.
Fighting terrorism is an ongoing process; Iraq is only a front in the war.
Most of the insurgents we are fighting in Iraq are not even Iraqi. They're Syrian, Iranian, and yes, members of Al Qaeda.
Abandoning Iraq, as the Party of Cut and Run has promised to do, will lead to the collapse of society in that country, and the subsequent takeover of that country by radical Islamifascists.
Iraq is a microcosm of the entire war on terror. If we lose Iraq, terrorism will be allowed to flourish and our country will be in far more danger than it is now.  |
