OK. So, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid believes that the war in Iraq cannot be won.
And that’s news?
Most everyone without a political axe to grind has understood this for quite some time. There will be no military solution to this quagmire, only a political one — one likely to happen only after we leave.
And yet the Republicans in Congress (most of them, anyway) insist on offering this kind of nonsense, from U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) :
“If Harry Reid believes that this war is lost, where is his plan to win this war?”
A plan to win? Nice bit of rhetorical spin here, but the issue has not been about winning or losing for a long time. To keep preaching the “in-it-to-win-it” line does a disservice to the soldiers laboring in this misbegotten conflict, the Iraqis and the rest of us. It is just one more bit of wishful thinking from the bubble brigade, a group of politicians that view everything through a partisan prism that distorts their judgment and causes them to speak in loopy slogans.
It is not about winning. It is about how we can get out quickly without making things worse. We are like gasoline on this fiery conflict and we need to get out.
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