[angkor]

An exceptionally great editorial.

Also see:

THE TRUTH ON IRAQ
By JOHN PODHORETZ
The New York Post

December 5, 2006 -- THE most common cliché about the war in Iraq is now this: We didn't have a plan, and now everything is in chaos; we didn't have a plan, and now we can't win.

This is entirely wrong. We did have a plan - the problem is that the plan didn't work. And of course we can win - we just have to choose to do so.

[snip]

President Bush needs to decide, as soon as possible, that he is going to win this war - that the bad guys are going to die, that we are going to kill them and that we will achieve our objectives in Iraq. That is the only way forward for him if he doesn't want to end up in ignominy.

The clock is ticking. He has only a week, maybe two, to change course dramatically. To choose to win, and to direct the military to do so.

Or we are sunk, and so is he.

http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/12052006/postopinion/opedcolumnists/the_truth_on_iraq_opedcolumnists_john_podhoretz.htm

[MNJohnnie]

Well as usual hysteric drama queen and perpetual whiner John
Podhoretz has utterly NO clue what he is talking about when it comes to Iraq.

Here the plan
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/iraq_strategy_nov2005.html

Here the facts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Security_Force


http://icasualties.org/oif/

http://icasualties.org/oif/IraqiDeaths.aspxs


Pod gets both wrong yet again. Maybe he should simply shut up on a topic he clearly knows utterly nothing about.

[MNJohnnie]

The Russians followed your and John P's dogmas in Afghanistan during the 1980s, How did they work then?