Things Are Changing In Iraq

As we enter the second half of the campaign year, facts are undermining the Democratic narrative that has dominated our politics since about the time Hurricane Katrina rolled into the Gulf coast -- most importantly, the facts about Iraq. During the Democratic primary season, all the party's candidates veered hardly a jot or tittle from the narrative that helped the Democrats sweep the November 2006 elections. Iraq is spiraling into civil war, we invaded unwisely and have botched things ever since, no good outcome is possible, and it is time to get out of there...
If George W. Bush was wrong about the surge from summer 2003 to January 2007, Barack Obama has been wrong about it from January 2007 to today. John McCain seems to have been right on it all along. When asked why he changed his position on an issue, John Maynard Keynes said: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" What say you, Sen. Obama?
Obama is a young man with old ideas. He is one of the youngest men to run for President, but is an old fogey who can't adapt to a new, changing world. He doesn't have the mental agility to look at facts and see that the world has changed. Funny that he keeps asking for change, but he can't see change happening before his very eyes. He brings a a worn out Vietnam anti-war protestor attitude to a modern, assymetrical war. He brings a Black Power vs Whitey attitude to a nation that has changed. He is too late to the ''change'' party.
I'll repeat what I said on another blog. Obama said he would ''end the war responsibly.'' It is impossible to parse that so that it makes any sense. Forget the moonbats and the Bush and America haters. They're gone. But there are many like a friend of mine--intelligent, serious, decently informed--who have fallen hook, line, and sinker for Obama. I find it incomprehensible, but it is so. I hope to God