National interests, that is American interests, count too

The President hit a home run today in his one hour news conference in D.C. While I as another armchair general disagree with much of the strategy before and today, at least he laid out his logic. Good on him. Most appealing was his repeated referrals to our National Interest, as compared to focus groups and other polling data as a method of ruling. The icing on the cake was to read the first AP report about what I had just watched and listened too, and the report was so different that one of us was out of touch. Given all the mainstream media prejudice and injection into American politics I read about, now I have observed a real world case. If this keeps up, a lot of AP people should seek employment elsewhere. And all we want is the news. The business model idea is so simple, and up front.

The other thing that seems to stick out today is common sense about pulling out of Iraq in a precipitous manner. The era of the minority anti-war types dominating the democrats and the sympathetic media has reached some nadir. The main theme is about us, and what are the consequences to our national security. Thank goodness someone has said Iraq is about us, and not the Iraqi people. Since politicians have yet, in general, to even discuss the consequences of a time table pull out, thank goodness some of the media have.

The 2006 congressional elections have energized some groups, depressed some groups, and been so full of Iraq anti-war stuff to the detriment of addressing more serious things like social security. It is amazing how some groups have announced their cause is mandated by the election results. Most of us know the actual results show an almost evenly divided public and an evenly divided Congress. This is where National Interests should predominate. A Nancy Pelosi can try impose her view on the nation, but in the end it is the nation that decides.

There is much work to be done as this Nation evolves. Those who focus on political power and the benefits are dinasours. The main effort must be on our National Interests. Call it selfish, call it national, or just call it common sense. And the rest of the world will benefit.

For those Americans born in the last thirty years, who could imagine being attacked by jihadists from hell just for our values and how we think?