The Corner
Who Wouldn’t Want to be a Fly on the Wall When George W. Bush Reads the New York Times This Morning?
Former President George W. Bush’s gut instinct that this region craved and needed democracy was always right. It should have and could have been pursued with much better planning and execution. This war has been extraordinarily painful and costly. But democracy was never going to have a virgin birth in a place like Iraq, which has never known any such thing.
It is now obvious that we are not midwifing democracy in Iraq. We are baby-sitting a civil war. . . .
Leaving, while bringing other problems, might also make it easier to build coalitions to deal with post-U.S. Iraq, Iran, Hezbollah and Syria.
“Victory at Last,” they said . . . eventually.