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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 --- 144 days ago http://chaosinmotion.blogspot.com/2008/02/winnable-wars.html
| Krauthammer pointed out Friday that the Dems still cling to the hope of failure in Iraq. Unless you're a Democrat. As Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) put it, "Democrats have remained emotionally invested in a narrative of defeat and retreat in Iraq." Their Senate leader, Harry Reid, declares the war already lost. Their presidential candidates (eight of them at the time) unanimously oppose the surge. Then the evidence begins trickling in. He also quotes Anthony Cordesman: "No one can spend some 10 days visiting the battlefields in Iraq without seeing major progress in every area. . . . If the U.S. provides sustained support to the Iraqi government -- in security, governance, and development -- there is now a very real chance that Iraq will emerge as a secure and stable state." -- Anthony Cordesman , "The Situation in Iraq: A Briefing From the Battlefield," Feb. 13, 2008 This from a man who was a severe critic of the postwar occupation of Iraq and who, as author Peter Wehner points out, is no wide-eyed optimist. In fact, in May 2006 Cordesman had written that "no one can argue that the prospects for stability in Iraq are good." Now, however, there is simply no denying the remarkable improvements in Iraq since the surge began a year ago. Which leads nicely into Cordesman's own Op-Ed in the WaPo today. No one can return from the battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan , as I recently did, without beli ... |
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