Fighting pirates

I hope Fred Thompson runs....he gets it.

From Redstate.com

"Some in the West seem part of Iran's propaganda war; claiming that the release of the hostages was a victory that proves the Iranian dictatorship can be reasoned with. To misrepresent unpunished piracy as a victory is as Orwellian as the congressional mandate banning use of the term "the global war on terror." What are we — Reuters?"

and,

"If we retreat precipitously, the price for that betrayal will be paid first in blood and freedom by the Iranian people, the Kurds, the Afghanis, the secular Lebanese, the moderates in Pakistan and the Iraqis themselves. And America's word may never be trusted
again. "

"Right now, the pirate Ahmadinejad is clearly more confident about the outcome of the Global War on Terror than we are. That ought to give us pause."


Why isn't this clearly seen, even by those on the left? As another blogger, Armed Liberal, asks "Did I miss the part where it was progressive not to fight medieval religious fascists?" One of our nation's first demonstrations of our strength as a nation was the war against the terrorists of the 1700's, the Barbary pirates. Today, that war continues.