"The soldiers think they can win," reads Bill Kristol's subhead in The Weekly Standard while "some Senators lose their nerve."I'm still in awe of the simplistic "win" and "lose" slogans used by the simple minds of the right.
This conflation of the actual physical courage exhibited by soldiers risking their lives in a war with the alleged courage demonstrated by pro-war pundits and politicians in advocating that the lives of others be risked is surely the most annoying tick of America's War Party. War is hard. Favoring war is easy. The distinction isn't difficult to grasp. - Matt Yglesias
What is "winning"? How long will it take to "win"? 10 years? 20 years? It's been 5 years already and Iraq is just a huge mess right now. How many other Americans soldiers does Bill Kristol think needs to die.. and for what?
Here's the dirty little secret of the war. We already won. The point of the invasion was the threat of WMD's, and Iraq's connection to the attacks on 9/11. Well, there are no WMD's in Iraq and we know now there was no connection to 9/11. So that means we won, right?
Declare victory and start withdrawing the troops.
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