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Iraq Looks Smarter and Smarter

Candidate Obama thought he was being brilliant. He talked the war in Iraq down- as far down as he could to insult President Bush and any other nearby Republicans. This made him much brownie points with his peacenik constituents. Simultaneously, heTalked the war in Afghanistan up- as far up as he could. This allowed weak willed and dewey-eyed moderates and “conservatives” to be comforted by the fact that Obama would be a “manly” president- capaable of fighting a war if needed.

Now Obama is getting his dearest wish and it is pretty obviousthat he only said all that “Afghanistan stuff” because it sounded good on the campaign trail. Now he must be realizing why Bush chose Iraq as the place to make a decisive strike against Al Qaeda and Jihadists. Bush knew that Iraq was already civilized and developed enough to readilly support democracy- Afghanistan isn’t. And Bush knew that aTHRIVING democracy in the area would encourage democracy elsewhere in the region. Bush knew that Iraq was not the only place in the region in which terrorists were recruited and trained but he knew that a war against them in the streets of Iraq was winnable while a war against them in the hostile and completely inhospitable terrain of Afghanistan would be much more costly in American lives and it would be much more difficult to produce quantifiable results. Bush knew but Obama was only concerned with sound bites. Today Obama has his “good war” in Afghanistan. He’ll run for the hills soon. Iraq will look smarter and smarter. The opposite will prove to be true for the President.- sjm