That has got to show up on a blog somewhere....it was very interesting....
The Left's Disjointed Logic On The Victory In Iraq
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Today we have this:
The figures are hard to estimate precisely but the process could involve hundreds of thousands of people. The numbers are certainly large enough, as we report today, for a mass convoy to be planned next week as Iraqis who had opted for exile in Syria return to their homeland.******************************snip**********************
What will the excuses be now from the left? As Wretchard at The Belmont Club writes, it a huge victory which the left just cannot abide by:
The current calm in Iraq represents not only a 'partial peace' but a huge victory. For the first time since Algeria at least, a Western army has defeated the combined efforts of a terrorist insurgency, a global radical Islamist attack and the intervention of two neighboring countries in less than five years. Al-Qaeda in Iraq made an explicit effort to precipitate a civil war in Iraq and failed. Syria backed the Sunni insurgency in its effort to restore dominance in Iraq and failed. Iran backed the Shi'ite militias, including the Special Groups and may be failing too. MNF-Iraq took on all comers in what amounted to a military randori and tossed them all out of the ring. You can call that an ATM truce or you can call it something else.Before it was Harry Reid pronouncing the war lost, then it was a civil war, now what do they say?
It was recently fashionable to schedule screenings of the movie Battle of Algiers to impress upon Americans how hard and hopeless their task was. This movie should continue to be shown, but it may be ruined by flashing this card as the credits roll: "this is what happened to the French, and seemingly to every Western Army since the 1960s, even to the Israelis in Lebanon in the 1980s. But it didn't happen to the US in Iraq." That would certainly provoke outrage, perhaps because people accustomed to being handed a flagellant whip don't know what to do with a glass of champagne.
It's all Sadr's doing.
Or, as Tom Friedman writes, its just a truce for money.
Their Bush hatred runs so deep they just cannot be happy for an American victory in Iraq because that would mean Bush was right. That we could win this thing.
Expect to hear more of this disjointed logic in the days and weeks to come as the left tries to come to grips with things going well in Iraq. Or, as history as shown us, they may just ignore Iraq all together now.