Wasting Time With Alex

Krauthammer gets it..

Charles Krauthammer, as usual, has an excellent article on how the left got it wrong again on the issue of America’s alliances. For a while now the left has been telling us how Bush squandered the international community’s good will and made America despised. Problem is that all the losers that “despised America” and the left told us we should be kissing ass to are now goners.

Chirac is gone and Sarkozy is basically not only talking like a friend but acting as one. He called America the greatest nation on earth and is actively changing the way things are done in France - a point to note that the leftist twits in this country are trying to change us to look more like France of course should not be missed - to mirror the American way in hopes it helps pull the French republic out of the death spiral it is locked in because of its socialist dependencies. In Germany Merkel has replaced Schroeder and is lining up German vision with ours. It sure sounds like the EU is now also trying to get into our good graces as Russia and China start to loom large again. And even the Arabs are siding with us. I guess winning makes a difference. Reality is sinking in.

The rise of external threats to our allies has concentrated their minds on the need for the American connection. The revival of American fortunes in Iraq — and the diminished prospect of an American rout — have significantly increased the value of such a connection. This is particularly true among our moderate Arab allies who see us as their ultimate protection against an Iran-Syria-Hezbollah-Hamas axis that openly threatens them all.

It’s always uncomfortable for a small power to rely on a hegemon. But a hegemon on the run is even worse. Alliances are always shifting. But one thing we can say with certainty: The event that will have more effect than any other on the strength of our alliances worldwide is not another Karen Hughes outreach to the Muslim world, not an ostentatious embrace of Kyoto or even the most abject embrace of internationalism from the podium of the United Nations. It is success or failure in Iraq.

And there you have it. There is a lesson here for the idiots that told us Bush squandered our good will. I am sure they will not get it being blinded by BDS and the need to fail to validate their ideological motivation. The rest of us are however not so vested in defeat that we can not see how things are shifting our way. Damn, it must suck to be a libtard these days.