et’s not use the military for, say, customary military operations, but for non-military undertakings that help us soothe our guilty consciences.

If the United Nations has failed the p

Figuring out military strategy is never easy. But it’s a particular pain when you’re trying to make heads or tails out of the typical liberal solution to unrest in international hot spots.

A case in point: Iraq vs. Darfur. While these countries are not fighting each other, a number of liberal activists would have you believe that U.S. involvement in Iraq is siphoning much-needed American troops away from Darfur. Here’s the typical scenario: A liberal talk show host attacks the Bush Administration for daring to venture into Iraq and attempting to establish the rule of democracy there. Yet, in the next breath, he rebukes the U.S. for not providing military assistance to Darfur. It’s really a “Clinton-esque” way of viewing the world: Let’s not use the military for, say, customary military operations, but for non-military undertakings that help us soothe our guilty consciences.

If the United Nations has failed the pe

A case in point: Iraq vs. Darfur. While these countries are not fighting each other, a number of liberal activists would have you believe that U.S. involvement in Iraq is siphoning much-needed American troops away from Darfur. Here’s the typical scenario: A liberal talk show host attacks the Bush Administration for daring to venture into Iraq and attempting to establish the rule of democracy there. Yet, in the next breath, he rebukes the U.S. for not providing military assistance to Darfur. It’s really a “Clinton-esque” way of viewing the world: Let’s not use the military for, say, customary military operations, but for non-military undertakings that help us soothe our guilty consciences.

If the United Nations has failed the p

much-needed American troops away from Darfur. Here’s the typical scenario: A liberal talk show host attacks the Bush Administration for daring to venture into Iraq and attempting to establish the rule of democracy there. Yet, in the next breath, he rebukes the U.S. for not providing military assistance to Darfur. It’s really a “Clinton-esque” way of viewing the world: Let’s not use the military for, say, customary military operations, but for non-military undertakings that help us soothe our guilty consciences.

If the United Nations has failed the p

blish the rule of democracy there. Yet, in the next breath, he rebukes the U.S. for not providing military assistance to Darfur. It’s really a “Clinton-esque” way of viewing the world: Let’s not use the military for, say, customary military operations, but for non-military undertakings that help us soothe our guilty consciences.

If the United Nations has failed the p

et’s not use the military for, say, customary military operations, but for non-military undertakings that help us soothe our guilty consciences.

If the United Nations has failed the people of Iraq, it stands to reason that the disordered league of nations will also shortchange the people of Darfur. When the world police refuse to do their job, international activists come running to Uncle Sam. And then, some of our own citizens attack the very efforts that are designed to bring stability and order to a given nation. The New York Times, for instance, is always quick to judge a U.S. military effort as short-sighted and dangerous, just because the man who ordered it happened to be of the Republican persuasion. Failed Presidential candidates, such as U.S. Senator John Kerry, are also quick to board the blame-America-first bandwagon.

We will remain a fractured nation until such hypocrisy ends. It’s easy to criticize the