Posted on 09/10/2007 2:56:45 AM PDT by Candor7
As recently as a month ago, it appeared that Gen. David H. Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker would be running into a withering fusillade of rhetorical fire when they appeared on Capitol Hill to report on the progress of the "surge" in Iraq. Now that their testimony is upon us, the political environment has become, in military argot, considerably more "permissive."
A sign of how much things have changed: In July, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was pressing for a "date certain" for troop withdrawal; he derided those who wanted to pass a nonbinding drawdown resolution "that has no teeth in it" just so "you can circle and sing 'Kumbaya.' " Today, he's trying to reach accommodation with Republicans on just such a "Kumbaya" bill.
It's obvious what accounts for the more cooperative mood. Notwithstanding all the political hype and hyperbole, events on the ground do matter, and there is no denying that events in Iraq have been moving in the right direction since the surge started. Not even the Democrats deny it. Sens. Jack Reed, Hillary Clinton and Dick Durbin, among others, have acknowledged that, as Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin put it, "The military aspects of President Bush's new strategy in Iraq . . . appear to have produced some credible and positive results."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
( The Dems are surrendering, the left is enraged?)
I hope the folks at the LA Times who read the letters to the editor brace themselves. The moonbats will be vicious.
they are desperate to save face
Max Boot is a pretty well known conservative isn’t he? This isn’t exactly an LA Times editorial.
falls off chair and faints.
It’s Max Boot, not an LA Times ‘official’ editorial!!
This no more reflects an official position of the paper than columns by George Will or David Brooks reflect official positions of WaPo or the NY Slimes, respectively.
It’s just one opinion from one conservative columnist. Always good to see it, but it does not reflect any overall change at the paper.....
I know but the moonbats will be outraged the Times printed it.
The tribal(MSM, DEM) sheiks on the left are joining the coalition so that they can protect their own neighborhoods.
LA Times giving Dems cover for going along with the surge.
Two weeks ago they would never have appeared in the midst of the official line supporting Pelosi and Reid.
They are flipping, and it should be cause for a very significant, "what was that you were saying last week," footnote.
Our president has won a press victory, and since he has had so few in the last 7 years, I think I am inclined to allow him a notch on the oaken grip of his pistol.
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