God Help Us

As I see it (and some may disagree), the unprecedented level of violence in Iraq has injected a much needed dose of realism into the current political debate about the utility of an open-ended U.S. military presence in that troubled country. Even many conservatives are beginning to question the nature of our involvement in the Middle East. But not NRO's Jed Babbin. For him, the problem isn't that there may be limits to what our amazing military can accomplish in Iraq, but rather that we haven't been sufficiently aggressive in confronting additional enemies in the region:

To win this war means removing the regimes in Iran and Syria and telling the rest of the world that they will be next if they sponsor Islamic fascist terrorism.

I get it. The solution isn't to extricate ourselves from what can only be described as a monumental failure but to embark on additional misguided military campaigns that are also likely to be monumental failures.

P.S. Babbin's drivel is even too much for the boys over at Power Line to stomach: "Babbin thinks the answer lies in forcing regime change in Iran and Syria. But that, I'm afraid, is not in the cards."

Posted by Kingston