July 30, 2007
Good News from Iraq
An op-ed in today's New York Times entitled "A War We Just Might Win" proclaims:
VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over four years lost essentially all credibility. Yet now the administration’s critics, in part as a result, seem unaware of the significant changes taking place.Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.
I thought Harry Reid already said we lost? War on Terror Posted by Harrison Bergeron at July 30, 2007 10:59 AM
Merciful Zeus. That is as upbeat a report on "the surge" as I have read on a milblog or in the Weekly Standard -- on the Ed Page of the Grey Lady!
HB didn't say it, but I will. Read the whole thing. Read it to your Senator.
Posted by: jk at July 30, 2007 11:33 AMWhen a major political party stakes it's electoral victory on military defeat abroad, is it anyone that when they win, they don't/won't notice what's going on?
"We won! It's cause we're losing! Yay!"
Posted by: AlexC at July 30, 2007 11:45 AMBefore you conclude that the NYTimes has joined the forces of light and modernity, read Don Surber.
Posted by: jk at July 30, 2007 12:36 PM | What do you think? [3]