I heard part of the Lynne Cheney interview with Wolf Blitzer, and I'm sure we all say bully for her.  Blitzer should now apologize to Cheney for lying about her writings.  He won't, of course.

What struck me most was Cheney's reference to Dean Rusk; the idea that sooner or later you have to decide whose side you're on.  I recall my father quoting Rusk once, in reference to Vietnam, to the effect of:  did it ever occur to you that there's something wrong with the other side.

I frankly consider myself a pacifist in my personal life.  School bullies found me no fun because I didn't try to fight back or report them to the principal.  I was once whacked upside the head on the street by some crazy person who then staggered down the street.  I wasn't injured; it didn't even hurt.  Not worth a police report.  I haven't hit anybody in anger since eighth grade, which was a long time ago.

But being a pacifist in your personal life is one thing.  You take the risk that you and only you will be injured or killed, and that's your risk to take.  But being a pacifist in international policy is not allowed; in that case, you are not merely taking your life in your own hands, you are putting it and my life (and the lives of my friends and their children and their parents and husbands and wives) in the hands of crazies with real weapons and worldwide reach.  It would be one thing if the only people who get killed in a war were the people who opposed fighting back (some of them in particular); but that's inevitably not the case.

I'm also frankly anti-war.  But what I take that to mean is that nobody should be attacking our country with suicide bombers and airplanes.  This is in opposition to those who claim to be anti-war, but are plainly, as noted by the Instapundit and other bloggers, on the other side.

Dean Rusk was right; you have to take sides and there is something wrong with the other side.  The other side is neither anti-war nor pacifist.  They are vicious, evil fascists.  And America must keep fighting them until they are no longer a threat.

Nine days from now, America has a choice to make:  cut and run from the war on terror, or keep fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and wherever else it is needed.  If anybody has any doubt that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are on the wrong side of that fight, well, you're allowed to think what you like.  But I'm not going to be a part of putting your life in their hands.