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July 30, 2007

Progress in Iraq Causing Long Faces Among Dems

Every silver lining has a cloud inside it. The improving situation in Iraq is no exception.

Even the New York Times has acknowledged that the surge is working by publishing an encouraging op-ed by Michael E. O'Hanlon And Kenneth M. Pollack:

We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq[…] In previous trips to Iraq we often found American troops angry and frustrated[…] Today, morale is high. […]

Everywhere, Army and Marine units were focused on securing the Iraqi population, working with Iraqi security units, creating new political and economic arrangements at the local level and providing basic services — electricity, fuel, clean water and sanitation — to the people. Yet in each place, operations had been appropriately tailored to the specific needs of the community. As a result, civilian fatality rates are down roughly a third since the surge began[…]

In Baghdad’s Ghazaliya neighborhood, which has seen some of the worst sectarian combat, we walked a street slowly coming back to life with stores and shoppers. The Sunni residents […] seemed genuinely happy with the American soldiers and a mostly Kurdish Iraqi Army company patrolling the street. […]

We traveled to the northern cities of Tal Afar and Mosul. […] American troop levels in both cities now number only in the hundreds because the Iraqis have stepped up to the plate. Reliable police officers man the checkpoints in the cities, while Iraqi Army troops cover the countryside. A local mayor told us his greatest fear was an overly rapid American departure from Iraq. […]

None of this is good news if you're a terrorist — or a Democrat. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) whines that a positive report by General Petraeus could impede his party's surrender efforts. Some Dems, known as Blue Dogs, are still sane enough not to throw in the towel when the country is winning a war it cannot afford to lose. Without their votes, Clyburn grouses, America might prevail:

I think there would be enough support in that group to want to stay the course and if the Republicans were to stay united as they have been, then it would be a problem for us.

Could you have imagined on September 12, 2001, that politicians would more or less openly root for our country's defeat at the hands of Islamic terrorists who prominently include al-Qaeda, and yet not be dragged by their throats from their offices for the tarring and feathering these treasonous lowlifes so richly deserve?

Hat tip: Ace of Spades.

Posted by Van Helsing at July 30, 2007 6:59 PM