Quote:One of my favorite quotes is from a movie called EXCALIBUR, Merlin said, "It is the doom of man that they FORGET!"  

 

Ultimately, the enforcement mechanism of any diplomatic accord is the willingness of either party to engage militarily if the other side violates it.  This is where the logic of the left flips around in a big circle.  

 

Why did we go into Iraq?  To enforce the terms of UN sanctions against Sadaam Hussein.  Colin Powell admitted again this past sunday that all the guy had to do was comply with UN inspections and he would still be in power today.  He gave the UN the finger.  We proceeded to go on a year long tour of coalition building and making presentations to the UN.  We received two UN resolutions authorizing the use of force for clear violations of international law.  We enter Iraq, and take baghdad.  

 

What did this mean for the region?  It meant that in a post 9-11 world the US was serious about limiting access of terrorist actors to weapons of mass destruction and when they said they were coming, they were coming.  What happened as a result.  Iran halted their nuclear programs, i believe quadafi suspended his.  It also meant that we had a force of a hundred thousand strong in the region and we would build an ally over the next 5-10 years that would be an extension of our influence in the region.  

 

So what did Theran eventually decide?  Iran made the policy decision to help undermine stability in the fledgling democracy in hopes that what was left of the country would come under their sphere of influence and oust the American footprint.  So they funded and armed shia malitias and killed roughly about a thousand US soldiers.  Couple that with the suni presence of Alqueda and other sects vying for power in a divided country and the state eventually destabalized.  

 

So what did the left do?  The left screamed and cried like a schoolgirl who just got her pig tails pulled!  You had the leader of the senate democrats declaring that the war was lost.  You had Jack Murtha accusing our troops of raping women and children in the dead of night and you had the democrats essentially running against the war in the 2006 midterms.  As a result, the republicans lost the house.  In january of 2007 Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as the new speaker of the house and Iran RESTARTED THEIR NUCLEAR PROGRAM.  

 

Why did they restart their nuclear program?  Because they knew that with a new democrat controlled house and the general sentiment of war fatigue in our country that there was no way we were going to engage in another ground war with an already stretched military.  Since that time it has been abundantly clear that in reality this nation really no longer has an appetite for conflict.  When the police decide to go home then that means that the bad actors can do whatever they want whenever they want and there is no one there to stop them.  

 

So now, 8 years later Iran is on the doorstep of becoming a nuclear power.  What does the left decry?  Diplomacy diplomacy!  let's use the UN, lets get other parties involved, lets negotiate.  What they seem to forget is that we can't negotiate with any real credibility because over the last 8 years we have demonstrated to the world that the new overriding foreign policy objective is peace at any price.  If we were so quick to abandon our goals and objectives enforcing international accords against the Iraqis what makes anyone think that we would be in it for the long haul to spend another ten years fighting IRAN and probably SYRIA being funded and armed by the Russians?  

 

The final nail in the coffin was the red line with Syria.  When we said no and they used chemical weapons anyway that let the world know that with this administration and the countries current leadership that words don't really mean anything.  The reason this deal feels like surrender looks like surrender and tastes like surrender is because that's exactly what it is.  

 

The sad thing is that history has taught us with bitter tears that appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.  Now you have an Iran so emboldened that they directly threaten the lives and safety of the people we are outsourcing their inspection regime to and openly tell us that they are going to use the money that we release to them to kill our allies.