Where’s outcry against perfidious Gingrich?

Richard Pasto of Fredericksburg writes in today’s FLS:

Why haven’t those who opposed the recent antiwar demonstrators (for the damage they have done to troop morale) been equally motivated to vocally oppose ex-Speaker Newt Gingrich’s unwarranted diatribe against the State Department, with the subsequent effect on State employees’ morale, [“Gingrich has neocons to thank for his nutty Mideast views,” May 2]?

I see a double standard here.

What you see is a healthy debate over Syria. The difference between the antiwar activists grasping straws and Gingrich is that the former Speaker isn’t the one calling our troops ‘terrorists’. Instead of trying to find holes in President Bush’s foreign policy, or trying to find the chinks in the armor of the success of Operation Iraqi Freedom, why not be constructive. That’s right, just hang up the poster and set your ideology on the back burner for a moment. The War on Terror continues. . .

Success – the bane of liberals and the hope of conservativism. And for the record no, we shouldn’t invade Syria and Gingrich has a good point concerning Syria’s relationship with Hezbollah.