As
I mentioned before, the term "progress" in Baghdad is only relative.
The situation is still very dangerous, dire and is sucking up our
people & financial resources. And lets remember, Iraq was never
really a "safe" place for anyone. However, things seem to be taking a
turn and its only fair to point that out since I have pointed out how
errant leadership turned a bad situation into a disastrous one.
The
Democrats are already regrouping and their new argument still has
merit, although I don't know why they're arguing at all since they
haven't and won't do anything about it. Their new argument is that, yes
the surge is working, but we could have avoided trillions of dollars
and thousands of American & Iraqi deaths if Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld
had planned for this war properly and heeded the advice of men like
Colin Powell & John McCain who said we should have started with the
surge. They're probably right. If our soldiers had leaders who planned
for a war and not a victory march, they would have had a better chance,
but the only thing that matters now is that some sense of sanity in a
world that is still very much insane by any civilized standard is a
step in the right direction.
It is tenuous.
The critics will point to a long list of "ifs" that could quickly turn
Iraq back in the wrong direction and will also point out that the
country is still lacking on its end of agreements that would allow us
to leave, but in trying to turn a deathly death trap of death into just
a crazy, unstable country is "progress."
