Blame the Democrats

Back in January I wrote about how many of those supporting President Bush's escalation of the war in Iraq were at the same time beginning to lay the groudwork to blame the Democrats in the event that the troop surge were to fail. That effort is now in full swing. As Noemie Emery puts it in the most recent issue of the Weekly Standard,

If...the surge is seen to fail, [the Democrats] will be the ones who made it more difficult, demoralized the armed forces, kneecapped the commander, and telegraphed to the enemy that our will was cracking, and we would shortly be leaving.

I don't want to spend too much time on Emery's smear because it borders on McCarthyism. I will say, however, that rants like this demonstrate just how desperate and unhinged the neocon's position on Iraq has become.

Posted by Kingston