What Will The Democrats Do If We Win In Iraq?
A question posed by Michael Crowley at The New Republic:
It hasn’t become much of a campaign issue—yet—but for the first time in a long while the news from Iraq isn’t unrelentingly ghastly. Some previously hard-to-imagine glimmers of hope are now emerging. Of course there are a thousand caveats here, and Slate’s Phil Carter has a good summation of them. But this weekend an experienced Iraq correspondent—someone who has been extremely bleak about the war in the past—told me he thinks it’s really possible that the country is turning a corner.
Which raises all sorts of secondary but fascinating political questions: What do the Democrats do if—yes: if, if, if—the surge appears to have succeeded?
A good question, but perhaps more important than the answer is another question: Why have the Democrats put themselves into a position where a military victory for our country is bad for them politically?
