By Rich Lowry"At the end of the movie "Charlie Wilson's War," the brilliant architects of the ouster of the Soviets from Afghanistan are begging for funds from Congress to consolidate their success on the ground. To no avail.
In less cinematic fashion, the same scenes are playing out on Capitol Hill over Iraq. The last U.S. combat brigade has crossed the border into Kuwait, bringing the U.S. presence down to 50,000 on the way to 0 by the end of 2011. It leaves a country no longer embroiled in a hellish civil war and feeling its way toward stability amid continuing terror attacks and a deadlock over the formation of a new government.
This is only possible because the Bush surge of 2007 snatched an opportunity for victory from the jaws of defeat. Now, the question is whether we'll lurch back into the maw of failure out of ideological willfulness, inattention and foolish penny-pinching."
No comments:
Post a Comment