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Mark Steyn agrees:

What's the difference between September 2001 and now? It's not that anyone "liked" America or that, as the Democrats like to suggest, the country had the world's "sympathy.'' Pakistani generals and the Kremlin don't cave to your demands because they "sympathize.'' They go along because you've succeeded in impressing upon them that they've no choice. Musharraf and Co. weren't scared by America's power but by the fact that America, in the rubble of 9/11, had belatedly found the will to use that power. It is notionally at least as powerful today, but in terms of will we're back to Sept. 10: Nobody thinks America is prepared to use its power. And so Nasrallah and Ahmadinejad and wannabe "strong horses" like Baby Assad cock their snooks with impunity.

This is of course the common denominator in U.S. and Israeli Middle East policy: our influence is directly proportional to our military strength and our will to use it to achieve our aims.

If one or the other of these pillars crumble, our enemies rush forth to achieve their regional aims at the expense of ours.

Churchill said something similar once about the Germans, which I quote from memory: "The Huns---always at your feet or at your throat."

I prefer our enemies at our feet. We know what the Dems prefer.