Another Canadian "Gets It"

David Warren, writing in the Ottawa Citizen (of all places) gets it right on Iraq like no politically correct American writer or commentator has the balls to think, much less write or say.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/12/what_to_do_in_iraq.html

The generation that destroyed America

In 2007 and for the foreseeable future – to be American means less. It means nothing good.

We are exactly what Osama bin Laden said we were: rich, fat, soft, lazy, selfish, unfocussed and unprincipled.

We have proven ourselves to be arrogant, self-flagellating cowards, bent on appeasing the rest of the world into loving us despite the fact that they never will, and despite the fact that in doing so, we will destroy the country, and ourselves, in the process.

Apparently embarrassed by our strength, we celebrate our weakness – seeking it out and happily exposing it to our enemies. We provide aid and comfort to our enemies while handcuffing our own forces.

We destroy our leaders who may be flawed but at least want America to continue to exist; and we elect new leaders who, for 50 years, have never failed to undermine America’s strength and progress – simply because we “are not happy” with the way things are going this week.

We break our promises without compunction or guilt. Many thousands will die when we surrender in Iraq – just as millions died when we abandoned Viet Nam… and we don’t care.

And, in breaking those promises, we betray our young men and women by asking them to fight and die in a cause that we have declared invalid.

We abandon our principles when we can’t get the courts to change them and we sentence our children and grandchildren to a world of hatred and violence. A world in which the United States of America, if it exists at all, will be a place – but no longer a dream.

I am ashamed to be a part of the generation that destroyed America.