What the frenchocrats Really Want

Defeat at Any Price
Why Petraeus's testimony was a nightmare for the Democrats.
by David Gelernter

Appeasement, pacifism, globalism: Those are the Big Three principles of the Democratic left.


But if we only remember the dead and not the cause for which they died, we dishonor and make nonsense of the noblest of all sacrifices. And we mock a president who asked that "from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain." That is the issue when Americans die in combat. Do we finish the mission and invest their deaths with meaning? Or do we shrug them off, inscribe their names on some sepulchral black wall in a ditch, and walk away?