By Charles Krauthammer
"By the day, the debate at home about Iraq becomes increasingly disconnected from the realities of the actual war on the ground. The Democrats in Congress are so consumed with negotiating among their factions the most clever linguistic device to legislatively ensure the failure of the administration's current military strategy -- while not appearing to do so -- that they speak almost not at all about the first visible results of that strategy.
And preliminary results are visible. The landscape is shifting in the two fronts of the current troop surge: Anbar province and Baghdad.
The news from Anbar is the most promising. Only last fall, the Marines' leading intelligence officer there concluded that the U.S. had essentially lost the fight to al-Qaeda. Yet, just this week, the marine commandant, Gen. James Conway, returned from a four-day visit to the province and reported that we "have turned the corner.''
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You have got to be fucking kidding me! Charles Krauthammer has been consistently wrong on Iraq (don't make me dig up his past columns)and he is wrong now. Ah, yes we are "turning the corner." What's that I see, is it a "light at the end of the tunnel"?
All hell is going to break lose in Iraq. Not that it's not hell now, but I mean compared to now. You heard it here first (apparently).
Al Sadre has been laying low but I believe he will move to a more confrontational stance. There is a fairly credible report in The Independent (link at my blog)that the Iranians are training, and no doubt equipping, his forces.
There is no military solution in Iraq, and the Bush administration is not interested in a political solution (which admittedly would be from a position of weakness).
The war is lost. You are just to blinded by neocon wingnut bullshit to realize it. But, as I have predicted before, you will blame the "liberals" when it happens.
Wake up.
lol@Gary--You grew some balls kid!!! I agree with ya--The War is lost.
We should leave those religious zealots to kill themselves--Now you know why Sadaam had to rule with an iron fist. It's gonna take another "Madman" to stabalize that country; otherwise its 40-50 bodies a day--they wont stop.
ha ha ha ha...
krauthammer!
ha ha ha ha!
thanks for a good laugh, donkey.
oh, man! priceless!
gary--this must have been posted ironically.
like hipsters going bowling.
That's it? That's your argument? The writer has been wrong in the past? Donkey could have used a NY Slimes article if he wanted to or if he was desperate enough to read that rag. But lets go over the facts and see where Krauthammer was right or wrong.
The surge has been effective? True
The dems barely won the senate? True
War supporter Leiberman won a landslide in a liberal stronghold? True
No dem campaigned for immediate withdrawal? True
Krauthammer is correct on all of those assertions. He's also correct that the President made wholesale changes in his war policy, but of course not the changes that you pussies wanted. You want to cut and run like fags from a war that WE CAN'T LOSE UNLESS WE SURRENDER. The President want's to win.
The surge isn't working and isn't going to work. Time will tell which of us is right. The Democrats in the end will not cut funding, and we will be in Iraq at least until January 2009. Will the situation at that time be better or worse? I predict worse, much worse. At what point will you admit you were wrong?
very good gary, you avoid the facts and go with some predictions instead. The biggest fact that i put in there is that the current crop of dems didn't run for election/re election on a policy of surrender, they said they wanted a change of course. We got a change of course and now that we're implementing it they want to cut and run!
We could win this war in a week if we had the political will, unfortunately we have pussies on both sides of the aisle, and a few right here in the comments section as well.
The surge is more of the same. If it is a change of course, it is a change of course in the wrong direction. I don't advocate surrender, I advocate facing reality. You should try it.
One good thing about predictions is that I will be proven right or wrong.
1. it is too early to tell whether the surge has "worked," but initial indications say "no."
2. the surge does not represent a change in course; unless, of course, you think each new anti-global warming post represents a change in course for your blog.
3. electoral politics are irrelevant to actual results on the ground in iraq.
4. how many times do generals have to say there is no military solution for you to believe it?
Be honest guys, isnt it really a matter of you thinking that we dont deserve to win this war and not that we cant win it?
Because lets be real here for a moment, historically speaking we have been in tougher spots than this, lost more men in a single day than have been lost in the past fours years and we always seemed to come out on top in every war not influenced by hippies.
General Benedict Arnold didnt think we could win either. If this was 1779, the both of you tory cunts would be tarred and feathered.
...you too Warlike ya limey bastard.
Let me put it this way. If we can't win in the next year, we can't win. Would you agree with that?
You know who gary reminds me of?
Adrian!
"you can't win rocky!" "you can't win!"
Gary let me review for you. We can't lose unless we surrender! They can't beat us, we can only beat ourselves.
Blind patriotism--Good luck with that Donk & Rhino!!
I think the surge works about as well as a girdle on a fat chick! It just displaces the fat, so it ends up underneath your armpits or halfway down your ass or something. The fat doesn't go away, it just goes to another spot for awhile to wait you out. The only way to get rid of fat rolls, or insurgents is to nuke them and suck them out. Naturally, you all realize I have no personal experience of the girdle fat displacment theory, it must have been something I read!
"We can't lose unless we surrender! They can't beat us, we can only beat ourselves."
Repeating this 100 times makes it not a whit less stupid.
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