seriously, for someone who wouldn't think so black or white, this success of the surge is relatively a minor success of a much larger failure of going into war with a wrong country. I can see why you latch on to this, since there's isn't anything else of significance to brag about in the last 8 years.
Okay, so that's your position. But I think it is clear today that most people who are more informed and more rational than you agree that winning the Iraq War is a tremendously important thing. As I've pointed out previously, even liberal intellectuals like Friedman and Hitchens agree with me, not you, on this issue.
If you cannot see how winning in Iraq has made us more safe, has reduced the threat of future 9/11s, and will be a catalyst for positive things in the future, then I'm sorry -- you're just too blind to even be TALKING ABOUT foreign policy. It is blatantly obvious to anyone who is remotely familiar with world events.
Personally, I find relatively little to complain about in the last eight years. Bush has been a strong, historically significant president who changed the world for the better in an environment where the Ds stood in the way of everything he did from Day One. Had the Ds had their way -- Pelosi, Reid & Obama -- we would very likely have had another, BIGGER attack since 9/11. |
