The American Spectator : Eager for Defeat

Text Size

Eager for Defeat

By Jed Babbin on 12.4.06 @ 12:09AM

Baker, Gingrich, and the rest of the defeatist Republicans. Luckily, there's Don Rumsfeld.

(Page 2 of 2)

* How will you ensure that, when the president's term ends, we will be on the path to victory and not defeat?

Robert Gates is, by all reports, the right man to succeed Rumsfeld and probably deserves the benefit of our support. But he needs to be tested first, and in his answers to those questions we can best judge if he can remake George W. Bush into the war president he must be for the next two years.

TAS contributing editor Jed Babbin is the author of Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe Are Worse Than You Think (Regnery, 2004) and, with Edward Timperlake, Showdown: Why China Wants War With the United States (Regnery, 2006).

Page: < 12

topics:
John McCain, Joe Biden, Islam, Military, Iraq, Iran, Fascism

About the Author

Jed Babbin served as a Deputy Undersecretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush. He is the author of several bestselling books including Inside the Asylum and In the Words of Our Enemies.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (1) | Leave a comment

louis vuitton| 4.27.10 @ 1:11AM

As late as 1912, ships had to be very careful to avoid Icebergs which littered the North Atlantic -- that hasn't been a problem since 1945. However,canada gooseAfter the immigration bill failed in the U.S. Senate, the postmortems deplored the new power of bloggers and the Internet.