Joining the pessimism, Alistair Horne, the eminent British military historian, recently likened the American situation in Iraq to the French debacle in the “brutal Algerian eight-year war”
He exactly right. Well except for the fact that
1 We're not the French
2 We're not try too conquer Iraq and keep it as a colony
3 The vast majority of Iraqis know why we're there and support it.
4 The terrorist don't have the support of the Iraqi people.
But other than that there's no difference.
People keep forgetting that freedom is a force multiplier. Those in the free countries of France and Germany and the Democratic Party hope that people in Iraq, Syria, and Iran will put nationalism over freedom as their foremost motive and goal. But Iraq is showing the US means what it says; it keeps its word; and its goals are not to dominate but to liberate. We are forming a partnership with the un-free, while the slackers and sophists in Europe carp and whine.