Preparing the Battlefield
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By Jed Babbin - Human Events
While President Bush and our military prepare the Iraqi battlefield for the troops we are surging into Baghdad, the Democrats are preparing the political battlefield of 2008. One aspect of shaping any battlefield — political or actual — is in manipulating the adversary by psychological warfare. It’s a matter of shaping the imagery of both sides: how they see each other, and how they see themselves. Hillary Clinton wants to pull the Clinton Cloak over the Dems again, relying on her pals in the media to maintain the façade of moderation and reasonableness. Though too many Republicans are making her job easy, it’s her own Senate pals — this week Chuck Schumer and John Kerry — who are the obstacle.
The Senate continues its dance around a non-binding resolution that opposes the President’s plan to surge 21,500 more American troops into Iraq to impose order in the Baghdad area. But as they score soundbites for the evening news and the Sunday talk shows, the Senate Dems — and all too many Republicans — seem eager to prove that they are willfully ignorant of the facts on the ground. In his confirmation hearings last week, Lt. Gen. David Petraeus — the new overall commander in Iraq — warned that these resolutions would embolden the enemy and hurt the morale of our troops. The RINOs charging into the anti-surge resolution find themselves comfortable with the likes of Sen. Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) and see no irony or inconsistency in voting to confirm Petraeus — which they did — and voting for the anti-surge resolution, which they are about to do.
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