Bill Dupray has been putting up a lot of good stuff at the Patriot Room lately (and I'm not just saying that because he generously allowed me to post my "Soak the Poor" piece there). The latest shows what a number of prominent Democrats said about the surge, without the benefit of hindsight. Barack Obama's is the most damning:
I don’t think the president’s strategy is going to work. We went through two weeks of hearings on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; experts from across the spectrum–military and civilian, conservative and liberal–expressed great skepticism about it. My suggestion to the president has been that the only way we’re going to change the dynamic in Iraq and start seeing political commendation is actually if we create a system of phased redeployment. And, frankly, the president, I think, has not been willing to consider that option, not because it’s not militarily sound but because he continues to cling to the belief that somehow military solutions are going to lead to victory in Iraq.
Clinging to the belief that “somehow” military solutions would solve a military problem? Is that like bitterly clinging to our religion and our guns? We are seeing a disturbing pattern of commonsense Americans continually exercising better judgment than the presidential wanna-be.
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