Harry Reid, the leader of the Democrats in the Senate, has long had a propensity for saying the wrong thing at a crucial moment. The other day he said that "... the war is lost." By that, he meant that we had lost in Iraq. Not surprisingly, President Bush and his colleagues in the Republican Party jumped all over the statement and now Reid has had to backtrack, again.
I have argued repeatedly in this space that the Democrats have been playing a dangerous game by actively undermining the war effort in Iraq. They have seemed far more interested in defeating George W. Bush than they are in defeating the various enemies arrayed against us in Iraq. I know that people are tired of the war, tired of the killing, tired of all of it. But we are lying to ourselves if we believe we can simply walk away from this battle. There was a time when politicians, particularly ones with significant political power, understood things like this. It's becoming increasingly clear that the current crop on Capitol Hill don't seem to get that.
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