Democrats Can’t Handle Iraq Questions

Posted at 4:33 pm on Friday, July 13, 2007, in Uncategorized, and tagged bush, iraq, tapper.

Jake Tapper blogged yesterday about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s inability to answer a question regarding Iraqi safety in the case that U.S. troops left Iraq, and I posted the first of 342 comments, so you know that Jake read what I had to say…

That is a very tough line of questioning. Keep it up, Jake. I don’t think anyone on the left wants to really answer that question because the war is so unpopular. (That doesn’t mean our representatives don’t have a duty to answer them though.) We ultimately may be stuck in a situation so untenable, there is no solution that includes our troops being withdrawn completely.

With the “moral obligation” of aiding the Iraqis arising as the main issue now, I think that it still comes down to the president (and Congress) to bring in the United Nations as peacekeepers. When a war to fight terrorists becomes a mission to maintain (or create) peace, is it not in the best interest(s) to bring in the rest of the world? This is where the president continues to fail the military: his stubbornness to admit the war was a mistake and not fully redirect our efforts in another stage of the war, hopefully the last one.

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