If America loses this war in Iraq it won't be due to al Qaeda in Iraq, or any Iraqi insurgency. It won't be from Car bombs, truck bombs, IED's, or homicide bombers. It will be because we succumbed to our own home-grown insurgency.

The New York Times* yesterday printed a story detailing the locations in Europe where CIA planes carrying terrorist prisoners have landed. If the New York Times feels the need to tell us all about the CIA and their ferrying of prisoners, fine, that's legitimate, but I don't need to know where these planes land. Bill O'Reilly is one of the biggest mouths out there, but he's dead right on this-- telling the world where CIA planes land exposes those countries to potential terrorist attacks, and gives the terrorists all the justification they need to spread the love of Jihadism. What The New York Times has done, is not only foolish, it's criminal. WWII's Tokyo Rose was imprisoned for less. Government censoring of the media is never a good idea, but the media and certain politicians should utilize a little common decency-- to say nothing of common sense! --and censor themselves.

The Democratic leadership in this country is no better. Take John Murtha's most recent statement, that American Troops in Iraq are "broken, worn out" and "living hand-to-mouth." How does a statement like this help us win the war? Let's look back at Vietnam for a moment...

"We were not strong enough to drive out a half-million American troops, but that wasn't our aim. Our intention was to break the will of the American government to continue the war."

--North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap, 1990

Compare that with this possible statement 18 months from now...

"We were not strong enough to drive out one-hundred fifty thousand American troops, but that wasn't our aim. Our intention was to break the will of the American government to continue the war."

--Abu Musab al Zarqawi, Leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, 2007

It's clear that John Murtha's will is broken. It's clear that Nancy Pelosi's will is broken. It's clear that Ted Kennedy had little will to begin with, and John Kerry can't decide one day to the next whether he has the stones necessary for any fight.

All rhetoric aside, the mainstream media and politicians are engaged in a deliberate subversive struggle against America's Interest in this war. Each day that passes sees another democrat on television telling the terrorists that their strategy is working... "American troops are broken, worn out. Your efforts at defeating us are working. Keep it up and you will soon win."

According to John Murtha, "Staying the course is not a policy," but he fails to see that "cutting and running" isn't an option. The Democratic party may have a desire to see America win, but they don't have the will. The best thing these Democrats could do at this point would be to bow out, and let stronger wills finish what must be finished.

The real insurgency is occurring here, in our own country.


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