Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Kathryn's Conversation with Buzz Patterson   [W. Thomas Smith Jr.]

I've just now read Kathryn Jean Lopez's fantastic Q&A with retired Air Force Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson.
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You'll remember we chatted with Buzz last week about Nancy Pelosi's snubbing of Gen. Petraeus.
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Today he talks about his forthcoming book, War Crimes: The Left's Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror, as well as addressing Kathryn's questions about timetables, the Left's war on an American victory in Iraq, and "If the war is not lost, how can we win?"
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It's a must read. Here's a sneak peek:

One of the major problems with how the war in Iraq has been portrayed in the U.S. is that media, politicians, and most citizens consider Iraq an entity in and of itself. It’s not. It’s a theater in a much greater global war where we are taking the fight to our enemy and killing terrorists. Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush, he’s been an excellent commander in chief and the overwhelming majority of the troops love him. He has the strategic vision to see the importance of victory in Iraq within the framework of the overall struggle against the evils of Islamo-fascism. The very successful elections in Iraq in 2005 are an indication of where we need to get to in the region. The president understands that we are faced with either killing all the terrorists in the world (which would be impossible) or giving the people in these regions another option, freedom. I spoke with many Iraqis on my trip there and they want it — they want what we have.

Kerry, and the Democrats in general, either can’t make that connection or choose to put their political careers ahead of the greater good. These are the same people who were clamoring for us to get involved in Bosnia and Kosovo for humanitarian reasons but now want us to abandon Iraq and give rise to what will be a huge human tragedy if we do.

Editor’s note: Please see this note.

05/01 01:07 PMShare