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From:
Parallels in Time: Bush, Lincoln, GWOT & the American Civil War
http://malize.townhall.com/g/4a8e65b1-68fb-40a1-9c8e-7505cd7f7914

"One of the current Democrats greatest dirty secret is that they play race as much as their Civil War predecessors do. They utilize the race card domestically by assuming the mantle of the party annointed to protect the minorities of the nation, and then with equal vigor paint a racist picture of those lazy Iraqis who can not seem to fight for themselves, i.e. the “those backward people over there are incapable of democracy.” That is the two headed snake of the modern Democratic talking points…pig headed multiculturalism at home, the subtle racism of the old “White Mans Burden” projected abroad. The Democrat concept that the Iraqis and Afghanis are not “worthy” or are otherwise “incapable” of democracy…that is their modern rejection of Emancipation.
You could just as easily take this:

“An Ohio editor branded Lincoln a ‘half-witted usurper’ and his Emancipation Proclamation ‘monsterous, impudent, and heinous…for it declares those ‘equal’ whom God created unequal.’“ (p. 594)

and see this today:

“NY Times columnist calls Bush a ‘half-witted usurper’ and the spread of democracy to support the GWOT as ‘monsterous, impudent, and heinous…for it declares those ‘equal’ whom are unequal to the rigours of democracy.’“

“One of Lee’s purposes in ordering restraint toward (white) civilians was to cultivate the copperheads. He placed great faith in ‘the rising peace party of the North’ as a ‘means of dividing and weakening our enemies.’ Lee wrote to Davis on June 10, that the copperheads professed to favor reunion as the object of peace negotiations while the South regarded independence as the goal. But it would do no harm, Lee advised Davis, to play along with this reunion sentiment to weaken northern support for the war, which ‘after all is what we are intereested in bringing about.’” (p. 650)

“War-weary rebel soldiers hoped fervently for McClellan and peace. ‘The enemy are exceedingly anxious to hold out until after the Presidential election…and that desertions [in the southern army] would be more frequent but they believe peace will be negotiated after the fall elections.’” (p. 803)

Just as the soldiers and generals of the Confederacy observed and took efforts to exploit the Peace Party, just as General Giap and the North Vietnamese did the same…just as it is today. If you profess to be a party that will stop fighting, the enemy will support you.

From:
"Drive By" History and the Tet Summer of Iraq
http://malize.townhall.com/g/9c75b618-41cc-48ea-80b6-535708c41b9b

It is commonly trotted out in liberal arguments against Iraq, where they point at Vietnam and parrot the quote.

I wish they would actually know their history as we come up on what will likely be the Tet Summer of the Iraq War...where the insurgents and jihadists destroy themselves militarily to achieve a strategic victory in US poll numbers and Congressional votes in the fall.

From:
The Muslim Reformation, Globalism, and Iraq
http://malize.townhall.com/g/32ff99a0-7fd3-4ede-92be-5b5c1e1d613f

It’s all about choices and free will. For jihadis and theocrats the status quo is the removal of choice, the submission of free will to the theocracy. That is literally the definition of the culture, submission of individual free will to the will of the theocratic order, laws, and decrees.

It is not Israel, nor the troops in Saudi Arabia, the occupation of Iraq, or any other excuse that is placed on the table which really gets to the heart of the jihadist fury…instead it is the concept of free will that so permeates our Western Culture that we do not even see it. The only way for them to remove this alien influence is to contain the spread within their own culture while they attempt to eliminate the source. That is the real reason they are the Robin Hoods of their cultures, because they are the defenders of that culture – just as the KKK was begun as the rearguard defense of Southern Culture and has morphed over the years into something even more abhorrent and sinister.

From:
"Are the Iraqis Worthy?"
http://malize.townhall.com/g/d8a42357-3d0a-484b-89f7-9e11a4f47791


The very ideals of classic liberalism, an open society with individual rights, is abhorrent to the death cult crowd. When people of their own culture assert individualism they can be murdered out of hand by the islamofascist, be it man or woman, young or old. This does not enable a free and fair market for the classic ideals to be debated and their merits weighed against the status quo.

That free and fair market of ideals and thoughts are what we are fighting to provide the Iraqis. They turned out in droves to get their blue thumbs and vote in elections, some with the threat of death hanging over them, I would think they have shown the national desire to engage in the fair market of liberal ideals. They may not pick every single classical talking point, but they are absolutely interested and involved.

Sounds like they are worthy enough as any of us, perhaps even more, to have the chance. If just a few of those liberal ideals can get thrown against the wall and stick in Iraq or Afghanistan we will have a victory against the Death Cults who want to keep their brother muslims bound to a stagnant theocratic ideology and destroy the west to prevent all the corruptive influences produced there.