Something To Give Thanks For

November 19, 2007 · Filed Under Opinion, U.S. News, War

As always Christopher Hitchens says it best in his latest column discussing the flood of recent good news coming out of Iraq.

I am not at all certain that any of this apparently good news is really genuine or will be really lasting. However, I am quite sure both that it could be true and that it would be wonderful if it were to be true. What worries me about the reaction of liberals and Democrats is not the skepticism, which is pardonable, but the dank and sinister impression they give that the worse the tidings, the better they would be pleased. The latter mentality isn’t pardonable and ought not to be pardoned, either.

The problem is that Democrats have staked their entire political future on our defeat in Iraq, so now that things are turning around they still keep up the same tired rhetoric about “policing civil wars.” It was entirely appropriate to call for a change in strategy before, but now that a new strategy has been implemented and it appears to be working it’s time for critics to pipe down.

Harry Reid looks like a moron when he stands behind the podium demanding a “new strategy” even though we have one and it’s working.

-Chris Jones