While the Democrats are as determined as ever to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory the Foreign Minister of Iraq, Mr. Hoshyar Zebari, writes a heartfelt editorial for the Washington Post today:
Last weekend a traffic jam several miles long snaked out of the Mansour district in western Baghdad. The delay stemmed not from a car bomb closing the road but from a queue to enter the city’s central amusement park. The line became so long some families left their cars and walked to enjoy picnics, fairground rides and soccer, the Iraqi national obsession.
Across the city, restaurants are slowly filling and shops are reopening. The streets are busy. Iraqis are not cowering indoors. The appalling death tolls from suicide attacks are often high because of crowding at markets. These days you are as likely to hear complaints about traffic congestion as about the security situation. Across Baghdad there is a cacophony of sirens from ambulances, firefighters and police providing public services. You cannot even escape the curse of traffic wardens ticketing illegally parked cars.
These small but significant snippets of normality are overshadowed by acts of gross violence, which fuel the opinion of some that Iraq is in a downward spiral. The Iraqi people are indeed suffering tremendous hardships and making grave sacrifices — but daily life goes on for 7 million Baghdadis struggling to take back their capital and country.
Today, at an international summit on the future of Iraq in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, my government will ask the international community to maintain its engagement in our country to help us achieve our goals of security and stability. We recognize that our request conflicts with a plethora of voices decrying the situation in Iraq and those in the British and American publics who seek an expeditious withdrawal from a war they claim is all but lost.
It’s a must read by all, even the left. But since it’s on page A23 of the WaPo not many but the most diehard paper readers will ever see it. I can understand this since the first few paragraphs depict something the MSM has never described before. Normalcy in Iraq.
Those calling for withdrawal may think it is the least painful option, but its benefits would be short-lived. The fate of the region and the world is linked with ours. Leaving a broken Iraq in the Middle East would offer international terrorism a haven and ensure a legacy of chaos for future generations. Furthermore, the sacrifices of all the young men and women who stood up here would have been in vain.
We cannot run from a fight we are winning. Hell, we shouldn’t run from a fight we are losing. To do so will only bring on more misery and bloodshed inside Iraq, and inside our own borders.
But make no mistake about it, we ARE winning this fight.
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At least many do read the editorials even if Wapo thinks this was right for A23. It would be so much easier to “win” this fight if……..well we know who’s gambling with our future.
And now the Hillmiester (Senator Clinton) wants to de-authorize the war. Let’s all jump into a time machine and pretend 9/11 never happened.