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stephanie
04-03-2007, 12:47 AM
By Thomas Sowell
April 3, 2007
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Congressman Tom Lantos, who is a member of the delegation that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading to Syria, put the mission clearly when he said: "We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy."

Democrats can have any foreign policy they want -- if and when they are elected to the White House.

Until Nancy Pelosi came along, it was understood by all that we had only one president at a time and -- like him or not -- he alone had the constitutional authority to speak for this country to foreign nations, especially in wartime.

All that Pelosi's trip can accomplish is to advertise American disunity to a terrorist-sponsoring nation in the Middle East while we are in a war there. That in turn can only embolden the Syrians to exploit the lack of unified resolve in Washington by stepping up their efforts to destabilize Iraq and the Middle East in general.

Members of the opposition party, whichever party that might be at a given time, knew that their role was not to intervene abroad themselves to undermine this country's foreign policy, however much they might criticize it at home.

During the Second World War, the defeated Republican presidential candidate, Wendell Wilkie, even acted as President Roosevelt's personal envoy to British Prime Minister Churchill.

He understood that we were all in this together, however we might disagree among ourselves about the best course to follow.

Today, Nancy Pelosi and the Congressional Democrats are stepping in to carry out their own foreign policy and even their own military policy on troop deployment -- all the while denying that they are intruding on the president's authority.

They are doing the same thing domestically by making a big media circus over the fact that the Bush administration fired eight U.S. attorneys. These attorneys are among the many officials who serve at the pleasure of the president -- which means that they can be fired at any time for any reason or for no reason.

That is why there was no big hullabaloo in the media when Bill Clinton fired all the U.S. attorneys across the country -- even though that got rid of the U.S. attorneys who were conducting an on-going investigation into corruption in Clinton's own administration as governor of Arkansas.

So much hate has been hyped against George W. Bush that anything that is done against him is unlikely to be questioned in most of the media.

But whatever passing damage is being done to George W. Bush is a relatively minor concern compared to the lasting damage that is being done to the presidency as an institution that will still be here when George W. Bush is gone.

Once it becomes accepted that it is all right to violate both the laws and the traditions of this nation, and to undermine the ability of the United States to speak to other nations of the world with one voice, we will have taken another fateful step downward into the degeneration of this society.
Such a drastic and irresponsible step should remove any lingering doubt that the Democrats' political strategy is to ensure that there is an American defeat in Iraq, in order to ensure their own political victory in 2008.

That these political games are being played while Iran keeps advancing relentlessly toward acquiring nuclear weapons is a fateful sign of the utter unreality of politicians preoccupied with scoring points and a media obsessed with celebrity bimbos, living and dead.

Once Iran has nuclear weapons, that will be an irreversible change that will mark a defining moment in the history of the United States and of Western civilization, which will forever after live at the mercy of hate-filled suicidal fanatics and sadists.

Yet among too many politicians in Washington, it is business as usual. Indeed, it is monkey business as usual, as Congressional Democrats revel in the power of their new and narrow election victory last year to drag people before committee hearings and posture for the television cameras.

It has been said that the world ends not with a bang but with a whimper. But who would have thought that it could end with political clowning in the shadow of a mushroom cloud?

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Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His Web site is www.tsowell.com.
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/tsowell/2007/ts_04032.shtml

Baron Von Esslingen
04-03-2007, 12:54 AM
Oooooh, the 'mushroom cloud' threat....

Cheney already played that card with Saddam. No one is buying that pig in a poke anymore.

stephanie
04-03-2007, 01:44 AM
Oooooh, the 'mushroom cloud' threat....

Cheney already played that card with Saddam. No one is buying that pig in a poke anymore.

I didn't expect you would like Dr. Sowell's article...
He talks about the Democrats....:coffee:

Gaffer
04-03-2007, 01:20 PM
Another good article by Sowell. He hits it on the head.

And as usual the liberal lemmings are in denial.

theHawk
04-03-2007, 02:07 PM
Congressman Tom Lantos, who is a member of the delegation that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leading to Syria, put the mission clearly when he said: "We have an alternative Democratic foreign policy."

Which they are not empowered to do according to the Constitution. This is a very dangerous thing to do, whether it be a Rep or Dem Prez. If our two politcal parties start making their own back door deals with foreign countries this country isn't going to last long.
But obviously the Congress seems to pick and choose which Constitutional battles to fight. How does it choose which ones to champion? Gee, it wouldn't be along party lines would it?

avatar4321
04-03-2007, 03:06 PM
Oooooh, the 'mushroom cloud' threat....

Cheney already played that card with Saddam. No one is buying that pig in a poke anymore.

and what do you know, we stopped Saddam from reimplimenting his nuclear program. Looks like the war worked in that respect.

Baron Von Esslingen
04-06-2007, 02:28 AM
The Gulf War did that. Not this war. Those things were gone ten years before Chimpy decided to invade.

Gaffer
04-06-2007, 10:37 AM
The Gulf War did that. Not this war. Those things were gone ten years before Chimpy decided to invade.

saddam was trying to reconstruct his nuclear program before we invaded. He was also looking for sources of uranium.