While some deny we have won much, it is getting tougher to deny that we have victory within our grasp:
But before long, the more honest among the surge opponents will concede that Bush, that supposed dolt, actually got one right. Some brave souls might even concede that if the U.S. had withdrawn in the depths of the chaos, the world would be in worse shape today.
But the full magnitude of what we achieved in Iraq must wait on both time and what future leaders do with the victory:
The full effects of the vigorous martial response of President Bush to the attacks of Sept. 11 will not be known for decades. But if history is any indicator, military courage, persistence and a capacity to kill the enemy in large numbers usually work to the benefit of such nations.
It never hurts for potential enemies to know that we will kill them until they are ground into the dust if they fight us.
And it never hurts for allies to know we will stand with them until victory if they side with us.
These are two reasons our Left doesn't want us to win, of course. But that's another issue altogether.
History may yet judge Bush 43 as George the Liberator.
