Here Comes Obama’s Flip-Flop On Iraq
This is from The New Yorker, not exactly a bastion of anti-Obama sympathies:
In February, 2007, when Barack Obama declared that he was running for President, violence in Iraq had reached apocalyptic levels, and he based his candidacy, in part, on a bold promise to begin a rapid withdrawal of American forces upon taking office. At the time, this pledge represented conventional thinking among Democrats and was guaranteed to play well with primary voters. But in the year and a half since then two improbable, though not unforeseeable, events have occurred: Obama has won the Democratic nomination, and Iraq, despite myriad crises, has begun to stabilize. With the general election four months away, Obama’s rhetoric on the topic now seems outdated and out of touch, and the nominee-apparent may have a political problem concerning the very issue that did so much to bring him this far.
If Obama’s getting that from the most liberal of media publication how in the world can he stick to his defeatist guns on Iraq?
Discussion question: If Obama and the rest of the Democrats who declared Iraq a loss years ago didn’t have the foresight to see that we could, in fact, be successful isn’t that an indication of poor leadership qualities.
