Thursday, May 22, 2008
"... did I support the surge? I don't remember. Don't think so. Or was it that I said its political objectives could never be realized? Think that's it. But I wasn't really wrong, just as the people who are right really aren't right: it's not so much that the surge seems to have worked but that it played a somewhat unexpected or unanticipated part in an evolving dynamic that seems to be working. Lesson to be learned there, I suppose. I did say, however, a long time ago, that McCain was betting his candidacy on Iraq turning around before the election, a bet he took on when prospects there appeared much bleaker than they do today. Now how's it gonna look come October when McCain gets to go before the people and say if Obama had been president America would have 'cut and run' a year ago, leaving behind a failed state that was unraveling and stirring up such security concerns that it looked like we were gonna have to go back in? Won't look good, I reckon. Careful what ya wish for, eh? The left wing loves Obama and have carried him to the nomination - all because ostensibly he opposed the war. I say ostensibly because he represented a very liberal district in the state legislature of Illinois and so would have been expected to oppose the war - still, oppose it he did and the left loves him for it. But their animus is all emotional in nature, merely reactive: it's clear none of them have really thought about the war in a broader, more involved context - or if they have it's been with such adulterated bias that their thoughts count for little in the greater scheme of things..."
