Time Of London: ‘We’re Winning This War On Terror’

June 27, 2008 · Filed Under Media, Opinion, War on Terror

Even if the American media still doesn’t get it, at least a few Brits do. An op-ed in the Times of London by Gerard Baker is titled, “Cheer Up. We’re Winning This War On Terror.”

Baker writes:

If only our political leaders and opinion-formers displayed even a hint of the defiant resilience that carried Marshal Foch to victory at the Battle of the Marne. But these days timorous defeatism is on the march. In Britain setbacks in the Afghan war are greeted as harbingers of inevitable defeat. In America, large swaths of the political class continues to insist Iraq is a lost cause. The consensus in much of the West is that the War on Terror is unwinnable.

And yet the evidence is now overwhelming that on all fronts, despite inevitable losses from time to time, it is we who are advancing and the enemy who is in retreat. The current mood on both sides of the Atlantic, in fact, represents a kind of curious inversion of the great French soldier’s dictum: “Success against the Taleban. Enemy giving way in Iraq. Al-Qaeda on the run. Situation dire. Let’s retreat!”

Thank God somebody gets it. The media here in America have been invested in defeat since day one. When it comes to the War on Terror, the mainstream media either covers bad news or nothing at all. The reason for that remains a purely ideological one.

Bush Derangement Syndrome is so severe in the liberal media that they’re largely willing to throw the entire War on Terror under the bus if it will destroy President Bush and the Republicans.

Barack Obama has liberal horse blinders on that prevent him from seeing the facts on the ground. In his world, the war in Iraq is lost and there’s nothing more to say on the issue. That’s why he hasn’t been to Iraq in exactly 901 days, because for him there’s nothing to see their.

After 9/11 every American was scared. We felt vulnerable and braced for another attack at any minute. However, President Bush said he would do everything in his power to keep us safe from further attacks. The President has indeed lived up to his word.

His decision to aggressively go on the offense and take the fight to the enemy has not only crippled Al-Qaeda, but has kept the American people safe.

It’s been nearly seven years since the horrifying day that nearly 3,000 of my fellow countrymen were murdered.

I’m still alive, my friends and family are still alive, and my neighbors are still alive.

For that, I will forever be indebted to President George W. Bush.

-Chris Jones