The Only Issue This Election Day
The following is a column from award winning author Orson Scott Card. If you don’t read science fiction you may not recognise the name but those who do hold Orson Scott Card in the greatest esteem.
From the November 2nd column in the Greensboro Rhinoceros Times Newspaper:
The Only Issue This Election Day
by Orson Scott Card
November 02, 2006
There is only one issue in this election that will matter five or 10 years from now, and that’s the War on Terror.
And the success of the War on Terror now teeters on the fulcrum of this election.
If control of the House passes into Democratic hands, there are enough withdraw-on-a-timetable Democrats in positions of prominence that it will not only seem to be a victory for our enemies, it will be one.
Unfortunately, the opposite is not the case if the Republican Party remains in control of both houses of Congress there is no guarantee that the outcome of the present war will be favorable for us or anyone else.
But at least there will be a chance.
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America’s role as a light among nations.
But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war. And since the Democratic Party seems hellbent on losing it and in the most damaging possible way I have no choice but to advocate that my party be kept from getting its hands on the reins of national power, until it proves itself once again to be capable of recognizing our core national interests instead of its own temporary partisan advantages.
To all intents and purposes, when the Democratic Party jettisoned Joseph Lieberman over the issue of his support of this war, they kicked me out as well. The party of Harry Truman and Daniel Patrick Moynihan the party I joined back in the 1970s is dead. Of suicide.
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