The Lonely President

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Source (http://www.washingtontimes. com/op-ed/20061212-105422-8384r.htm)

Washington Times

The lonely president

By Tony Blankley
December 13, 2006


The American presidency has been called "A Glorious Burden" by the Smithsonian Museum, and the loneliest job in the world by historians. As we approach Christmas 2006 Anno Domini, President Bush is surely fully seized of the loneliness and burden of his office.
For rarely has a president stood more alone at a moment of high crisis than does our president now as he makes his crucial policy decisions on the Iraq War. His political opponents stand triumphant, yet barren of useful guidance. Many -- if not most -- of his fellow party men and women in Washington are rapidly joining his opponents in a desperate effort to save their political skins in 2008. Commentators who urged the president on in 2002-03, having fallen out of love with their ideas, are quick to quibble with and defame the president.

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Do you think Gen. Patton or Abe Lincoln or Winston Churchill or Joseph Stalin would have thrown their hands up and say "I give up, there's nothing we can do?"
Or do you suppose they would have said, let's send in as many troops as we can assemble to hold on, while we raise more troops to finish the job. If the victory is that important -- and it is -- then failure must be unthinkable, even if it takes another five or 10 years.


Exactly!

The prob, as I see it, is that American's DON'T see that victory is "all that" important.

IMO, this is our watershed moment in world history.

The other problem, as I see it, is that American's don't see ALL the IslamoNazi events as ONE BIG LONG ASSAULT... they have already been conducting a war that we only entered 5 yrs ago, in our collective mind. When the first attack on the WTC was ineffectual, they vowed to return, and return they did!! Why don't we believe them?

Now they say the destruction of the WTC is only the beginning... more to come... we need to put this "bad boy" to bed once and for all. And on OUR terms, not theirs.

Lincoln was alone in the self-same rooms now occupied by George W. Bush. All his cabinet and all his military advisers had counseled a path Lincoln thought would lead to disaster. He was only a month in office and judged by most of Washington -- including much of his cabinet -- to be a country bumpkin who was out of his league, an accidental president.

I have made parallels between Lincoln and GWB also... and IMO, they both were Divinely appointed, the very right men for the time.

May God be with our Prez; and as he "stands alone" may he also continue to stand strong.