Dem Stab in the Back

Ooh, have the Democrats moved on from Darfur, since they have obviously done all they can there, (zip, zero, nada) and found another issue to flog that won't actually require them to do anything to help anyone alive? There was the spectacle of the Democrat majority leader Steny Hoyer on the Sunday shows blathering on about this.

Here's the Tribune on the fundamentally unserious Democrat Congress' attempt to exhume a World War I tragedy between Turks and Armenians and condemn Turkey:

What risks? Eight former secretaries of state, Democratic as well as Republican, have signed a letter to Pelosi contending that passage of the resolution would "strain our relations with Turkey, and would endanger our national security interests in the region, including the safety of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan." The administration concurs. Turkey, for all its imperfections, is something rare and precious: a Muslim country that is both a democracy and a staunch American ally. The Pentagon says 70 percent of the U.S. military cargo sent to Iraq goes through or over Turkey. If the Turks stop cooperating, crucial materiel may be delayed.

So much for the Dems' support for our troops.

And we are trying to persuade the Turks to ignore sporadic Kurdish incursions from northern Iraq, as well as be more even-handed toward their own Kurdish minority. So much for Dems supposed commitment to diplomatic measures. This Democrat action is already destabilizing --Turkey has withdrawn its ambassador to the US for consultations.

And why this why now from the Democrats, when they didn't pass this during the Clinton administration? Ralph Peters says the Dem objective is to get us thrown out of our base at Incirlik (which, by the way, also played a key role in liberating Afghanistan):

It's a brilliant ploy - the Dems get to stab our troops in the back, but lay the blame off on the Turks. They pretend they're responding to their Armenian-American constituents - while actually moving to placate MoveOn.org.

For the Democrats in Congress, it looks like a cost-free strategy. For our troops? When did the Dems give a damn about our troops? This resolution isn't a stand in favor of historical justice. It's an end-run that ducks behind the bench. It's one of the most cynical betrayals in our legislative history - of our troops, of Armenian-Americans, of the Kurds under threat from the Turkish military and of the people of Iraq.

We can't let Pelosi & Co. get away with this one.

We also have the current Democrat attempt to roll back our intel protection under FISA and for the first time require a warrant for foreign-to-foreign conversations that come across a US server--turning an advantage in the war on terror into a liability. Democrats want to build up the very over-lawyerly wall the 9/11 Commission found blindsided us to Sept. 11th.

Democrats can not be trusted on national security.