One aspect of the recent MOVEON.ORG and THE NEW YORK TIMES fiasco which
has not been covered is the silence of almost every Democrat in the
House of Representatives and the Senate. These legislators are afraid of
a primary election. MOVEON.ORG has threatened a primary against a young
Democratic Congressman from Washington. He opposes the war, but after
traveling to Iraq, he saw what the surge has accomplished. When he
returned to the United States, he told of this accomplishment.
This is a good lesson in politics. When a group or a person is angry and
overreaches it unites the opposition. MOVEON.ORG may have bullied the
Democratic Party into submission but it has united the Republicans and
the country behind Petraeus.
The American people understand that this good man would not send young
men and women to get injured or killed if he honestly did not believe
that the United States had a chance to win. Senate Majority Leader
Harry M. Reid (D-NV) has insisted that the war is lost. Many Democrats
now have a stake in an American defeat.