Between us and the Abyss

President Bush stands between us and the abyss, or so says Diane West today.

"The United States' war on barbarism (for what else are terrorists, but barbarians?), which George W. Bush is determined to win, is not only a military and intelligence effort against desperate Ba'athist remnants in Iraq, mad jihadist terror cells the world over, and the hostile nation-states that support them. It is also a great political struggle against international and domestic forces -- from the United Nations, where plans are afloat to expand the Security Council, to the Democratic Party, which finally found in the president's $87 billion budget for Iraq a federal spending program too rich for its blood -- that act to restrain and limit America's execution of and, therefore, victory in that war.

In some ways, this political battle may be trickier than the military campaign. It may even be more costly in terms of loss of life -- if, that is, we are defeated, or if we defeat ourselves."

Yep, defeating the Democrats is the only way to ensure America's victory in the war on terror. After all hasn't George Bush captured Osama bin Ladin (no), Saddam Hussein (no), put an end to terrorism (no), definiatively eliminated Iraq's Weapons of Mass Distruction (well, we can't eliminate what we can't find), brought peace to Iraq (no), and Ended Terrorist attacks on Americans (well, maybe on civilians, but our troops are still receiving them pretty regularly).

Do you feel any safer than you did two years ago at this time? I suppose that's a question we're all going to have to answer in our own way.