A brilliant analogy – UPDATED

Via one Michael Geer writing in The American Thinker:

I put myself through university passing instruments in surgery; a surgical tech. I worked on every kind of case. Appendix, gall bladders, broken limbs, gun shots, knifings, the burn center…(etc).

Never did the surgeons, the circulating nurses, the anesthesiologists or specialists stop in the middle of a GD operation and walk away. Not even when a four hour schedule went horribly sideways and ended up to be eighteen hours. To walk away is so far beyond unthinkable that the mind revolts. And when patients were clearly teetering on the edge of life and death, they received so much care and effort and sweat from teams of professionals that the suite was overrunning Grand Central. We never backed off. Never. Good God, the very idea! We got even more serious. Only men who are the focus of deadly incoming fire understand that intensity when you’re out of options, out of altitude and seconds count in life and death. You…do…not…quit.

What the Left is howling for is that, exactly. The United States determined that there was no choice but to put this patient on the table and open him up for a liver transplant. His liver had failed and his body become fatally toxic to him and everyone else. He was so toxic he was gangrenous. Now that we have the patient open and stabilized and are finishing the first steps of the grueling process of transplant, the Left is in a rage that we don’t walk away and leave the GD patient on the table, unfinished and exposed, the gaping wounds of surgery open and untended. They say, let this guy finish the job himself. Get outta there.

Horrifying. Simply horrifying.

Succinct and concise and sensible.

UPDATE: This analogy seems to have struck several people at the same time. Dr. Sanity links to a soldier who is writing almost the same things and saying: America, Listen to this man!

It’s sad that so many Iraqis and others are dying over here. However, when you discover you have cancer the treatment is always the same – attack it at the source. You don’t wait for it to spread. And when is the last time you heard a doctor putting a limited timetable on cancer therapy? I can picture it in my mind. “Mr. Smith, we have seen some progress with your tumor. It’s shrinking. But we need to move on now. The timetable for treating you has passed. Good luck.”

That’s what some people are trying to tell Iraq just as hope is looming on the horizon. And that disgusts me.

And brelevent is writing along the same lines:

Imagine that you had a doctor who didn’t want to hurt your feelings. His top priority was to keep you happy, not healthy. Now imagine you had cancer. But he told you that you were fine. You were happy. But you were dying.

Welcome to the Democrats approach to the war on Iraq.
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It is time to reject the placebo prescriptions of America’s left. The right treatment often hurts, but it will ultimately heal.

Unfortunately, we’re all preaching to the choir – the folks who need to read these things won’t. Meanwhile, Gateway Pundit says Bush’s numbers are rising.