I lurk at RedState.org from time to time, and today I found a post by Joshua Trevino, soliciting beta readers and other support for a new pro-war website called noendbutvictory.com. I am reproducing part of his manifesto below the fold.
Trevino's rant shows signs of desperation, especially where he catagorizes both parties as "showing signs of capitulation." He deals with the growing unpopularity of this war by denying it and blaming Congress. Who does he think elected Congress?
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This is not a partisan issue. This is not a left- or right-wing issue. This is an American and Iraqi issue, and all men of good faith must now come together to remind our leadership that whatever our politics, and whatever we thought of the decision to go to war, there can be only one end:
Victory.
The anti-war, cut-and-run crowd, which fears not defeat, nor dishonor, nor an Iraq under the terrorist heel, is well-organized. Its online haunts are well-known enough: Daily Kos, Atrios, and the rest have a massive readership, and they present the appearance of representing a substantial segment of public opinion in the United States.
But we know that this is not so. We know that Americans don't want to retreat: they want to win. And their support for the war varies in direct proportion to their perception that the American political leadership is willing to achieve that. History shows this clearly: the United States Congress turned against the war in Vietnam long before the American people did; support for the 1983 Lebanon intervention collapsed only after the Reagan Administration decided to withdraw; and support for the Somalia intervention was strong until the moment the Clinton Administration elected to retreat.
The President has done an admirable job in holding the line. But both American political parties show signs of capitulation. It's time for us to raise our voices and remind them that all of us, Americans and Iraqis, demand one thing of this war:
NO END BUT VICTORY
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