Daniel Henninger's editorial in last week's Wall Street Journal about America's creeping defeatist attitude struck me as very astute. I believe he's right. Having lived through Vietnam and the politically paralyzed aftermath, as far as foreign policy was concerned, we are now seeing the Democrats trying to channel the spirit of American failure and cowardice over Vietnam into today's current events.
It surely is corrosive. These Senate resolutions which are vying for support among the upper chamber, in order to attempt to manage the war, are, per another Journal editorial, simply unconstitutional. Congress does not seem to have the power to forbid the sending of the troops for which Bush has planned, but they probably can cut off funding.
It seems that now, only Joe Lieberman is being candid and sane about this, among both parties' Senators. He almost appears to be a throwback to Henry "Scoop" Jackson, the hawkish Democratic Senator from Washington state in the late 1960s. Lieberman understands the damage America will sustain internationally if it cuts and runs in Iraq. The terrorist Muslims will follow our troops "home" and make our home soil a battleground.
Perhaps the low point was when John Kerry, at the Davos Forum, declared that America is now an "international pariah."
As I wrote here, earlier this week, Kerry is among those Democrats who simply cannot tolerate a strong American President when he's not of their party. Since when has America looked to others to lead its foreign policy, or, better yet, look after and protect its interests abroad?
We can only hope that this Senatorial foot shuffling and blame casting will result in the Democrats being called to account for their pure negativism on foreign policy, in both the Senate and White House races, come 2008.
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