The Democrats in Congress have made it clear that they are opposed to President Bush’s new strategy in Iraq and that they do not think it will work. Whether they are right or not, it is legitimate for them to think the President’s strategy will not work. With the way things have gone so far, and with all of the mistakes the Bush Administration has made, their doubts may be understandable.
However, given what some of them are saying and proposing, what I am wondering about some of the Democrats (not all of them, just certain of them) is this: Regardless of whether they think Bush’s plan will work, how would they feel it if actually succeeded? I realize that, in good faith, they do not think Bush’s plan will work. That is fine. People can disagree on what is the best policy. But how would they feel if, in spite of what they think, Bush’s plan actually did work. How would they feel if the Iraqi people got more security? If there were fewer killings and if life got better for the Iraqi people? How would they feel if Bush’s new plan started working?
If things started getting better, would they stop demanding that the troops come home now? Would they call off their attempts to hamstring Bush’s new plan? If the new strategy was starting to work and it needed just a little more time, would they let it have the time? Would they be willing to admit things were getting better and let the new strategy have a chance? Or have they so decided we cannot win, have they so decided we cannot succeed, have they so decided the Iraqi people do not matter, that they could never admit the plan was actually working? In other words, do they want us to fail?
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