Staring in Disbelief writes:

” Eternal lefty-pessimists like coyotl will always point to the “next worry” while totally discounting the immense, real progress in regional security that has been achieved.”

The Coyotl laughs, for he is no Leftist. Why think so small? Where is the fight in the Left? Communism/Socialism is unkind to free-ranging thinkers, Cynics and other scavengers . . . but back to the problem at hand:

Islamist regimes must be defeated and you can not defeat them by turning power over to . . . Islamist regimes! We’ve seen this happen in Gaza, and the funding we’ve given to the Pakistani military has ended up in the grubby hands of the Taliban.

Fact: Despite Wretchard’s desperate need for illusions, the Dawa-led government of Iraq in not a liberal democracy. They are thugs who are arresting the leaders of the Sunni Awakening while Wretchard studiously ignores it. BCers know this if they’ve been paying attention.

Fact: Maliki spent three days in June talking with the Ayatollah Khamenei and came away asking for a timeline for troop withdrawals. Enter in Maliki and Ahmadinejad into a google image search and see what you get.

Fact: Despite Wretchard’s fantasies, Dawa (The Call to Islam) is a Shiite Islamist party that supports both Iran and Hezbollah.

In response to these facts of misguided strategy, we hear from Wretchard that the Left is deluded, self-contradictory and will soon implode if it doesn’t achieve power. Stunning analysis to the problem at hand, no doubt.