The war that should have been lost
William McGurn, at The Wall Street Journal, on the sins of Bush The Hated:
"[O]n the night Mr. Bush announced the surge, Barack Obama said he was 'not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse.'
"[O]n the night Mr. Bush announced the surge, Barack Obama said he was 'not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq are going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse.'
Three months after that, before the surge had even started, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pronounced the war in Iraq 'lost.' These and similar comments, moreover, were amplified by a media echo chamber even more absolute in its sense of hopelessness about Iraq and its contempt for the president."
Thanks, David.
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