{"id":243,"date":"2005-12-17T07:13:22","date_gmt":"2005-12-17T12:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=243"},"modified":"2005-12-17T09:49:05","modified_gmt":"2005-12-17T14:49:05","slug":"is-that-victory-i-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Is that victory I smell?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last two days have seen a triple whammy for the Islamofascists<br \/>\nand their Western quislings. The Iraqi elections were a thumping<br \/>\nsuccess; congressional Democrats voted in a resolution supporting<br \/>\nprosecution of the Iraq war; and the Patriot Act failed to be renewed.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The huge turnout in the Iraqi elections was great news, but the<br \/>\nunderreported story is that Baathist dead-enders actually protected<br \/>\nIraqi polling places from al-Qaeda jihadis.  This presages the entry<br \/>\nof Sunni Arabs into normal politics, and marks what is likely to be a<br \/>\nfatal fracture in the Baath\/jihadi alliance.  Couple this with the<br \/>\nfact that attacks against Coalition troops have fallen to a<br \/>\nseven-month low, and we begin to see a prospect of an end to the<br \/>\nfighting in the near-term future.  It seems unlikely to me that the<br \/>\ninsurgency can last another year; on current trends, it could well<br \/>\ncollapse in six months.<\/p>\n<p>On the domestic front, the Republicans forced Congressional<br \/>\nDemocrats to a stand-up vote on a second resolution supporting U.S.<br \/>\nwar aims; the result will make it politically very difficult for<br \/>\nany of them to call for immediate troop withdrawals.  A longer-term<br \/>\neffect will be to drive a wedge between Congressional Democrats and<br \/>\nthe pro-jihadis in the American hard left.  I don&#8217;t think we&#8217;re going<br \/>\nto see the DLC making kissy-faces at Michael Moore any more.<\/p>\n<p>And the Patriot Act wasn&#8217;t renewed.  I think this is good news.  It<br \/>\nhad become more effective as an anti-American propaganda weapon than<br \/>\nit ever was as a tool for routing out terrorism.  This particular<br \/>\nlegislative defeat will neatly spill the wind from the sails of the<br \/>\nBush=Hitler crowd; what kind of Hitler lets the enabling legislation<br \/>\nfor his putative Gestapo be scuppered by a mere vote?<\/p>\n<p>I think I smell victory coming.  And not just over the Baathists<br \/>\nand jihadis, but over their Western allies as well.  The anti-American<br \/>\ncoalition is fracturing; even the most repellent elements of Old<br \/>\nEurope&#8217;s elite are having second thoughts in face of the clear and<br \/>\npresent danger presented by an Iran that is building nuclear weapons<br \/>\nand headed by a frothing nutcase.<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;ll know the victory is final only when the West purges<br \/>\nitself of the memetic poisons left over from the Cold War.  The most<br \/>\nunfortunate thing about the way our geopolitical confrontation with<br \/>\nthe Soviets ended is that the nihilists and pro-Communist apologists<br \/>\nin the West&#8217;s intelligentsia were never exposed and hounded out of<br \/>\npublic life. It took them all of about six months to become<br \/>\nIslamofascism&#8217;s quislings after 9\/11; this time, I hope, they&#8217;ll be<br \/>\nnamed, shamed, and ruined.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  On reflection, I think I was far too generous with that<br \/>\n&#8220;six months&#8221;.  It was more like six minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last two days have seen a triple whammy for the Islamofascists and their Western quislings. The Iraqi elections were a thumping success; congressional Democrats voted in a resolution supporting prosecution of the Iraq war; and the Patriot Act failed to be renewed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}