Americans were united.  Politicians stood on the steps of Congress singing “God Bless America.” President Bush, unlike the previous American leader, indicated that he had no intention of filing charges against the terrorists in any court.  No, Bush wasn’t hiring any lawyers, he was coming after them and the American people cheered him.  It wasn’t long before American bombs were killing al Qaeda and its Taliban supporters in Afghanistan.  Then, Saddam Hussein, terrorist supporter and funder, was in the crosshairs. Bin Laden told his followers not to despair.  America is weak and has no stomach for war, he told them. Some cheap bombs and a few hundred suicide bombers later, it appears bin Laden was right.

 

     The mighty “Great Satan” falling to the followers of Allah so quickly is quite a coup for radical Islam. Thousands upon thousands of Muslims sitting on the fence will make their decision to follow the radical leaders based on Senator Reid’s unconditional surrender to Islam.  If Reid and Pelosi knew where to send the articles of an unconditional surrender, there is little doubt they would have done it.  With that not available to them, the Democrat leaders have done the next best thing: they announced our surrender on world television.

 

     It took bin Laden ten years to defeat the Soviets and even then, he needed help and weapons from the United States to accomplish it.  Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Liberation Army still have not defeated the “Little Satan,” Israel, after 50 years and several wars.  Defeating America with a small investment of a few thousand followers must have stunned the Islamics who did not expect such an easy victory.  How easily the mighty fall.  The Middle East will soon be theirs.  Europe will soon be theirs, as well.  Plans for Islam to dominate the world seem to be ahead of schedule.

 

     The urgency of a quick surrender and retreat from Iraq by the Democratic Party borders on bewildering. In a recent debate between Democratic hopefuls it seemed that one was trying to out-bid the other with earlier dates that troops would be withdrawn from Iraq.  When asked to raise their hands if they believed there even was a “world war against terrorists,” John Edwards and Senator Joe Biden did not even raise their hands.

 

     While House Speaker Pelosi has time to fly to Syria and meet with President Bashar al-Assad, she cannot find the time to meet with General Petraeus, who is in charge of the new offensive in Iraq against al Qaeda.  Syria is suspect in several assassinations in Lebanon and is allowing fighters to cross its border in Iraq to kill Americans.  Yet, there was Ms. Pelosi, trying to play president while posing for photo-ops with an Islamic terrorist.

 

     The majority leader of the United States Senate, Harry Reid, D-Nev., told reporters that he will listen to General Petraeus, but he will not believe him.  Senator Reid said, “No, I don't believe him, because it's not happening.”  Why should our generals make the trip to Washington to testify before Congress when half of Congress either doesn’t show up or calls them liars?  Reid, the Democrat leader in the United States Senate not only has declared the war is lost but that our military leaders are nothing but liars, and he has done all this publicly.

 

     Perhaps more amazing is the fact that the liberals in America still do not realize who the enemy is and what it is capable of.  At that same recent debate, Senator Obama, D-Ill., when asked what he would do in the event of another terrorist attack, Obama compared it to a natural disaster and proclaimed that he would make sure that there were enough rescue people to pick up the bodies.

 

     While Senator Clinton, D-N.Y., said she would retaliate, she would do so only after conclusively knowing who was responsible.  One should know by now who would be responsible; the trick is finding them.  Radical Islam is a faceless, countryless entity.  It is here, it is there, it is everywhere.  Who should we attack first, Senator Clinton?

 

     Known terrorist leaders were thrilled with the vote in the Democrat-majority Congress.  Abu Nasser Aziz, the deputy commander of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, was pleased with the vote as well as with what he heard in the first Democratic debate.  In a statement to the Middle Eastern media, his comment was: "I think the more Americans receive the bodies of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, the more the conservatives in the U.S. will be sentenced to be thrown in the garbage."

 

        How can liberals continue to claim their bugles of retreat are not endangering our troops with comments such as the one made by Aziz?  Terrorist logic is: Kill more American soldiers and those who wish to fight us will be shouted down, the weak will win, and Islamic victory will be assured.

 

     Yet, the Democrat hopefuls continue to wave the white flag.  John Edwards now says he would withdraw our troops from Iraq immediately if he were president.  Leftists seem to be falling all over themselves to be the first to surrender--and they are proud of it.

 

      There is little hope now that this war with radical Islam can be kept at bay and off American soil.  This vicious enemy thrives on weakness and that is what it has seen now from Americans.  The missing element is that when the attacks start--and they will--these Islamics will be shocked at how quickly the average American will demand retaliation.  The whimpering appeasers such as Reid and Pelosi will reverse themselves and be in full denial that they ever surrendered at all.

 

      In truth, it will be Reid and Pelosi and those who have done their bidding that will be responsible for every dead American killed by suicide bombers, car bombs, or worse.  Their gross underestimation of the enemy has put America in an untenable situation, and they and their party will have a lot to answer for.