Friendly Fire

We are now mostly through that big September where the surge results were to be evaluated and Republican support for the war was supposed to collapse. It didn't happen, and we will now get at least another Friedman Unit or so of war, regardless. A bunch of the blame goes to the ineptitude of the Democrat's and other's anti-war strategy. It would be hard to count all the ways that they sabotaged the case against the war, but let me mention two:

When the Democrats in the House and Senate questioned Petraeus and Crocker, they were long on oratory and short on tough questions. Barbara Boxer, the Britney Spears of politics, was a tragicomic exemplifier. After wasting her question time on idiotic oratory, she fumbled her chance at a question so ineptly that she rated feature play on The Daily Show.

More damaging was Moveon's idiotic ad equating Petraeus and "Betray us." As I predicted, that ad guaranteed that the conversation would be about Moveon rather than the war - to the point that even a majority of Democrats felt oblidged to condemn the ad in a (truly moronic) Senate resolution.

Thanks a lot, you grandstanding morons.

Moveon's excuse is probably testosterone and stupidity, but the Congress's case is possibly worse. Either they are helpless to obstruct Bush or they hope to keep the war going to until the 2008 elections - mainly for political reasons.

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