Don't Tell Them We Just Might Win

I didn't write about Michael O'Hanlon's and Kenneth Pollack's New York Times piece Monday, the one where they admitted to seeing progress in Iraq and that, unlike Harry Reid, they think we could actually win the war. I was busy dealing with real life stuff that day.

If I had, I would have pointed out that their opinion seems spot-on to me. It's not that everything in Iraq is rosy, but that changing strategy in Iraq is producing truly positive results, and that after four years of the war, we may have found the proper approach to this thing.

I also would have pointed out that the American Left would not leave O'Hanlon and Pollack alone for long, and, as we all know, that would have been correct. After all, it's very important to our "patriotic" friends on the Left that no progress be seen in the war, because doing so ruins one's credibility with the Left--and we know how much Rick Ellerson--er, Glenn Greenwald has.

Anyone still arguing about the patriotism of such media whores need look no further than the way the Left immediately savaged O'Hanlon and Pollack for daring to suggest there are successes in Iraq. They argue that conservatives are the "Blame the Left First Crowd," instead of actually looking at their own motivations and behaviors. I have a hint for Sirota: maybe you should look at the behavior of the American Left before dismissing accusations against them so easily.

Jeff Goldstein does an excellent job, as usual, of dismantling Sirota's pathetic arguments. Why blame the Left first? Read Goldstein's post and the reasons are obvious.