| Joe Lieberman flipped out last week because Democrats refuse to accept his goofy World Domination and Destruction Policy. Lieberman, who has helped put hundreds of thousands of American troops into harm's way in Iraq for purposes never adequately explained while handing control of the region to Iran, implied that Democrats don't care that "Iran is murdering out troops."
The statement makes so little sense, you would expect some leading Democratic official -- a presidential candidate perhaps -- to tell Joe how ridiculous his statement was. But the reaction from leading Democrats was silence.
So, once again, Ned Lamont does what no other Democrat has the courage or good sense to do: Put Joe Lieberman in his place. In yesterday's Politico, Ned Lamont took apart Lieberman's speech, piece by piece:
Rather than challenge anyone's patriotism or motivations, let me pander to your common sense and challenge Lieberman's rereading of history.
In his speech, the senator stated that the Democratic foreign policy establishment has "flip-flopped" on its commitment to the "internationalist and tough-minded" foreign policy consensus of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy, and now the party is "viscerally opposed to the use of force."
Remember, this is the same Democratic establishment that pushed for military action in Kosovo, Bosnia, Afghanistan and (regrettably) Iraq.
It is President Bush and Lieberman who have wandered from the "internationalist and tough-minded" foreign policy consensus that helped us to keep our alliance strong for 40 years of a Cold War, a war we won not by arrogantly going it alone but by working closely with our allies under Truman's NATO umbrella.
It was a war we won not by reflexively pulling the trigger but by exerting all the levers of American power [...]
Democrats are so invested in defeat, Lieberman said, that they cannot acknowledge that "the surge" is working. [...]
The not-so-good news is that Iraq's central government is barely functional, increasingly irrelevant to the security situation and incapable of making the political choices necessary for a lasting peace.
The British military recently reported that violence in Basra dropped 90% when British troops left the region. Nevertheless, Joe Lieberman will continue to argue for keeping Americans on the firing line in Iraq, and insulting anyone who disagrees with him. |
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