How cravenly stupid must David Ignatius be to think we’ll swoon at his wisdom?

It’s hard for anyone to take American power seriously when prominent members of Congress are declaring the war already lost.

Because our opponents would take us far more seriously if we just denied reality like…. David Ignatius!

Whose fault is this anyway?

Future military planners will have to recognize that American democracy, in which political mandates must be renewed in two-year increments, makes us uniquely unsuited to fight protracted counterinsurgency wars.

That’s right, it’s your fucking fault, you goddamn democratic bastards.

There’s a bone for the Democrats

The most sensible comment I heard on Iraq in the past week came from one of the Democratic presidential candidates — indeed, from the one with the strongest antiwar credentials, Sen. Barack Obama: “I think we can be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in.“

but you can guess what’s coming:

Obama is right, and so, for that matter, is President Bush when he says much the same thing.

I ask again, how cravenly stupid must David Ignatius be to think we’ll swoon at his wisdom?

Stupendously.

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