National Review gnome Victor Davis Hanson offers a nice survey of why no one is really agitating for a major change in the approach to the Iraq war right now. In short, all the reasons for going to war--with the exception of actually stockpiles of WMD, always a legal fig leaf to energize the flaccid UN--are proving valid, and all the outcomes of the war are proving beneficial to the region and to Western interests.
We are, in short, winning a war that we needed to fight, in a position to reduce American troop presence in the not-too-distant future, and safer in a potentially better world as a result.
Gentle readers are urged to ignore poll numbers, which will have no effect whatsoever on our lame duck President and little influence on the next round of elections. Informed opinion, even among Ds, all points in the same direction: finish what we're doing, fine tune our approaches to Islamofascism, commit ourselves afresh to the struggle, and stay active on the side of global democracy. These points are no longer subject to debate.
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