Why They Really Want Us to Lose

What is the real reason many on the left want the war in Iraq, and for that matter, the war on terror to be a failure?

Nobody on the left and only the most bold on the right even admit this is the case but make no mistake, there are a plurality maybe the vast majority of liberal progressives in this country cheerleading our enemies. Although this phenomenon is readily observable in the Entrenched Media, Congress and numerous nutroots organizations, the greatest reservoir of this attitude resides in the average liberal peacafist who quietly roots for the other guys.

Conventional analysis tells us that it's the profound hatred of Bush and his policies that drives this inexplicable sentiment but this blogger believes it goes a great deal deeper than that.

Granted the Bush hatred does play a part but substantially more significant is the lefts hatred of the military and all that they represent. A win for the miltary is the worst possible scenario because it validates the position that there are times when force can best achieve the desired results. Most liberal/progressives believe that negotiation and diplomacy can solve ALL our problems and that military action ALWAYS makes things worse. Any success the United States acheives through military means is a full frontal assault on those dearly held beliefs and are therefor intolerable.

Those who adhere to this philosophy look back to the aftermath of Vietnam with profound nostalgia. In their minds, a major loss for our military served as a total and complete validation of their political religion. They knew that the consequences of this "military defeat" would be both considerable and lasting. They quietly celebrated "It will be a long time before this country involves itself in a military conflict again" and they were right.

Now 35 years later the peaceniks yearn for another major military defeat. They realize that such a failure would be crushing to even a moderately hawkish psyche. A rebuke of this magnitude would make the crusading hegemonous imperialists gunshy for decades to come and that's just the way they like it.

Bottom line, the hard left does not support our mission, our military or our troops. They didn't in Viet Nam, they don't now and will likely not the next time we are called to arms.