Lieberman Nails It, Part 2

I love this second one! Lieberman gave a speech earlier this week at a Center for Politics and Foreign Relations/Financial Times breakfast at The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. The subject of Senator Lieberman’s talk was “The Politics of National Security,” and he spoke about the future of the Democratic Party and its response to the threat of Iran. The speech is too long to post here, but it is WELL worth a moment of your time to go read it. The money excerpts:

“Since retaking Congress in November 2006, the top foreign policy priority of the Democratic Party has not been to expand the size of our military for the war on terror or to strengthen our democracy promotion efforts in the Middle East or to prevail in Afghanistan. It has been to pull our troops out of Iraq, to abandon the democratically-elected government there, and to hand a defeat to President Bush.

No Democratic presidential primary candidate today speaks of America’s moral or strategic responsibility to stand with the Iraqi people against the totalitarian forces of radical Islam, or of the consequences of handing a victory in Iraq to al Qaeda and Iran.

There is something profoundly wrong—something that should trouble all of us—when we have elected Democratic officials who seem more worried about how the Bush administration might respond to Iran’s murder of our troops, than about the fact that Iran is murdering our troops.

This speech will only take a few minutes to read, but it contains a wealth of information about the recent history of the Democrat (and Republican) party in regard to national security. Lieberman has an insider's viewpoint, and the courage to call a spade a spade. Seemingly one of the few politicians nowadays that is willing to put principle over politics, Lieberman has held onto his core beliefs -- despite the fact that they differed from his party -- as being more important than anything else, even to the point of leaving the Democrat party to become an Independent.

I cannot recommend highly enough that you spend just a few moments to read this speech and think about it.

If you care about America's national security, you need to read this.

There's my two cents.