Despite all the progress, military and political, the Democrats remain unwavering in their commitment to withdrawal on an artificial timetable that inherently jeopardizes our "very real chance that Iraq will emerge as a secure and stable state."
Why? Imagine the transformative effects in the region, and indeed in the entire Muslim world, of achieving a secure and stable Iraq, friendly to the United States and victorious over al-Qaeda. Are the Democrats so intent on denying George Bush retroactive vindication for a war they insist is his that they would deny their own country a now-achievable victory?
I'd amend the article to specify the leadership of the Democrats whose bloodline is of the Left. Plenty of ordinary Democratic voters would be as happy as anyone else to win the war. But the point remains sound. Surrounded and cut off from reality, our Left refuses to admit that they may not achieve their cherished goal of losing a war in order to pin it on George W. Bush. When confronted with real evidence of sustained progress over the last half year and more, they'd rather work harder to achieve the defeat they've predicted. Iraq can burn before they'd let Bush get any credit for winning this war. How could any self-resepecting Iraqi want to win and fight for democracy when Bush might get the credit, they seem to think. Keep in mind that this isn't so much predicting victory for the enemy as working to achieve victory for the enemy.
But hey, sometimes you have to destroy a country in order to save it, right?
