Murtha’s call to defeat

Hat tip: Hugh Hewitt.

Representative  John Murtha has now tipped his hand.  He’s not calling for bringing the situation under control, he’s calling for action that will encourage terrorist groups around the world.

Blackfive writes:

Now from the NRO Media Blog via Allah comes this gem from a CNN interview:

MURTHA: … And I said over and over in debate, if you listen to any of it, in Beirut President Reagan changed direction, in Somalia President Clinton changed direction, and yet here, with the troops out there every day, suffering from these explosive devices, and being looked at as occupiers — 80 percent of the people want us out of there — and yet they continue to say, “We’re fighting this thing.” We’re not fighting this. The troops are fighting this thing. That’s who’s doing the fighting.

By the way, this subject has actually come up before.  bin Laden recalls the moment that his movement gained the confidence to take on the United States:

“After leaving Afghanistan, the Muslim fighters headed for Somalia and prepared for a long battle, thinking that the Americans were like the Russians,” bin Laden said. “The youth were surprised at the low morale of the American soldiers and realized more than before that the American soldier was a paper tiger and after a few blows ran in defeat. And America forgot all the hoopla and media propaganda … about being the world leader and the leader of the New World Order, and after a few blows they forgot about this title and left, dragging their corpses and their shameful defeat.”

The move by Clinton in 1993 to evacuate Somalia following the “Blackhawk Down” battle where American Rangers and Delta Force operators killed several hundred Somalis while losing only 18 soldiers is widely acknowledged as a seminal moment in the evolution and elevation of Al Qaida as the most significant terrorist organization in the history of the world.  That is not to say that Reagan did us any favors by pulling out of Beirut in 1984, but fortunately the jihadis were busy with the Soviets and not focusing on the US.
So Murtha wants to lead us through a replay of Somalia. How very, very, very nice of him.

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