Democrats may claim victim status for unintended consequences, but at the end of the day, their policies have ultimately produced our current problems with the Axis-of-Evil and their nukes.
One only need go back to the Carter administration to reveal the ugly facts.
Between World War II and 1979, Iran was the model of progressive Middle Eastern modernity and was undeniably our strongest ally within the Muslim world.
However, after Carter’s election, he decided the Shah didn’t measure up to human-rights standards.
A leftist mainstream media campaign ran stories of Iranian government-sponsored torture while willfully neglecting to report the Soviet influence and the nature of the enemy facing Iran.
After Carter cut the Shah off at the knees, the world was introduced to Ayatollah Khomeini, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Republic and 444 days of America held hostage. On the other hand, the Carter period did give us Billy Beer and a presidential rabbit attack.
After America’s period of Democrat malaise, Presidents Reagan and Bush (41) were elected.
Their legacies in brief: U.S. hostages released, Libya abated, won Cold War, Soviet Union disintegrated, won first Gulf War and eliminated the U.S. military’s mollifying experience of Vietnam.
Then the American electorate fell prey to the prevarications of a two-term, skirt chasing, didn’t inhale, draft dodging, military loathing, don’t ask don’t tell, scandal-ridden deceiver from Arkansas, who worked hard to undo U.S. political capital earned during the previous 12 years.
Clinton failed to recognize the first World Trade Center bombing as an attack, and his indecisiveness became well-known in Somalia, which later motivated the movie “Black Hawk Down.”
This episode became a public relations victory for al-Qaida and its impetus to strike future U.S. assets.
Clinton ordered missile strikes that offered little in the way of real results.
Al-Qaida’s newly emboldened stance led to the U.S. embassy bombing in Africa, the Khobar Towers bombing and the attack on the USS Cole, to name a few.
Clinton’s legacy recorded scandal after scandal on top of scandal. On the other hand, Clinton failed to dismiss and/or stop Carter from traveling to North Korea to make a deal that would later result in a North Korean nuclear program and the weapons derived there from.
Before Sept. 11, President George W. Bush took on the Chinese Communists and secured the release of a naval surveillance crew.
Shortly after Sept. 11, with patriotic bravado, President Bush declared that the enemy would hear from us, and he later went on to prophetically expose the Axis-of-Evil. In spite of Democrat and world-leftist cowardice and condemnation, President Bush declared the War on Terrorism.
Undeniable results have produced the world’s only successful invasion of Afghanistan, removal of the Taliban, the successful invasion of Iraq and removal of Saddam Hussein and an al-Qaida on the run and in hiding.
One should also note France’s newfound willingness to lob nukes and the more recent Canadian electorate declaration of red-state status.
If not for Democrat interloping, we would already by drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and moving toward Social Security reform.
The clear divide in legacies couldn’t be clearer, and no manner of historical revisionism can change the truth.
