Limiting the enemy to the Taliban and to Al Qaeda would be a huge mistake. The war is against Islamist terror, not just against Bin Laden. The war is against States who sponsor terror, not just against Bin Laden. The war is against all of the other groups, in the Philippines and in SE Asia, and in Indonesia, and lately in India, who may not call themselves Al Qaeda but are a part of the same network of sick persons who use the Whabbi form of Islam to pursue their purpose in life of to humiliating and torturing humans. Bin Laden is their idol, President George Bush has been their scourge.

The measure of effectiveness in Iran cannot be credited to the enemy (President Bush) for in doing so the democrats must make the admission that they were wrong. Not just about Iraq, but about the whole global effort…, about Bali, about Thailand, about Libya, The Sudan, about Columbia, about Cuba and about Venezuela, have they been wrong. They have tried to ignore Lebanon and Syria and they are wrong in their assessment of the terrorist situations in those countries as well as the nature of terror in the Palestinian un-states.

A victory in Iraq, puts the lie to the notion that Arabs (and gooks) cannot handle democracy, and puts a lie to the utterly pompous nonsense that individual humans cannot decide nor act in what is in their best interest, and that government (any government)is the higher and final arbiter of what is good. The hubris that says we can mess with you but not with your government, and that you cannot mess with your government or the elite few that have self elected and self anointed themselves as the official holy ones able to mess with governments and dabble in law, all others please shut up, and thank you.

No I just don’t think they can admit to all of that without a huge wave of deadly embarrassment, thus unable to ignore the reality they must deny it all.

And then there is the very real possibility that they simply do not get it.