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I have permission from Orson Scott Card to post excerpts from his forthcoming essay, “Why We Are Winning and How We Can Still Lose”.
The dominant issue in this election is the war on terror.
Kerry and the other Democrats have made a series of charges against President Bush and his administration that the Iraq campaign was a distraction from the real war against Al Qaeda; that the Patriot Act is not necessary and that it is being abused; that Bush let Bin Laden get away at Tora Borah.
Are these charges true?
The best answer is a book called Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror, by Richard Miniter. This is the one book that every American should read before this election.
BIN LADEN’S ESCAPE AT TORA BORA
Contrary to Kerrys deliberate deception, Bush did not let Osama get away at Torah Bora. It was winter in extraordinarily rugged country. All the forces that could be brought to bear were deployed, but no one, not even Bush, can defeat weather and terrain all the time.
It’s just Kerry doing his usual Monday-morning-quarterbacking. “I could do better,” he claims. Anybody can claim that about anything.
RUSSIA AND THE WAR ON TERRORISTS
From the start, Chechen Muslims have been in the highest circles of Al Qaeda. After all, Bin Laden got his start waging war against the Soviets in Afghanistan; Al Qaedas hatred of Russia is deep and unforgiving. So when we complain about Russias lack of support for us, lets remember that they are fighting the same war we are and have borne just as heavy a burden.
We should also remember that the monstrous attacks that Russia has suffered from Chechen rebels are exactly the sort of thing Al Qaeda would happily do inside America.
Russia may be more of an ally than we realize.
THE PATRIOT ACT
Above all, World War IV requires us to be able to respond instantly to information that will only be useful for hours or minutes. Those who would add new layers into the process of obtaining warrants for wiretaps and searches, or who would deny our operatives the right to make a search that is designed to be undetected, can wrap themselves in the flag and pretend that they are protecting the American way of life.
But if they succeed, then when our forces, hampered by the inability to take necessary actions, fail to prevent a massive attack on American soil, you can bet that the very people who eviscerated the Patriot Act will be the first to attack the government for failing to keep us safe.
KERRY AS A POSSIBLE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
John Kerry is quite possibly the worst possible commander-in-chief for a nation at war that has ever been seriously considered during a political campaign. There is no aspect of the war on terror that his record shows him capable of or even interested in promoting.
And despite his claim that he could assemble a multinational force to firmly pursue our enemies, we know this crucial fact: In 1991, when we had a U.N. resolution, a multinational force, and an enemy that had invaded another country, threatened to control the worlds supply of oil, and had a record of using weapons of mass destruction which we knew he had, Kerry still voted against the Gulf War.
Kerry is the enemy of American military power, even when used multilaterally in support of international law. He will never, ever be capable of using our military effectively or carefully, despite the lies he tells during the process of a campaign.
And I call them lies because they so obviously are lies. Democrats speculate without evidence about President Bushs and Vice-President Cheneys motives all the time, accusing them of deception without a shred of evidence.
But Kerrys claim to being tougher and smarter about military matters than Bush is so obviously false that we should be laughing whenever he makes it. He has been wrong on every defense system, on every vote in his entire political career. If Kerrys will had prevailed, we would have no military that was capable of resisting our enemies.
The full essay should be online this coming Monday.
