When the Soviet Union fell, certain people refused to give Reagan and George H.W. Bush any credit whatsoever, despite evidence to the contrary.

When forces gathered in the Gulf to oust Saddam from Kuwait, the Iraqi Army was described as the formidable force of an emerging nation. When the U.S.-led effort routed the Iraqi Army, Saddam’s forces were described as third-world and rag-tag.

The sudden need to urge a shift from Iraq to Afghanistan is an attempt by those doing the most strident cheerleading for such a shift to hide their previous cowardice. The spineless twits who didn’t want to fight ANY war under ANY circumstances now want to look at least semi-belligerent in order to feign manhood. They want to use the very military forces for which they’ve had so much comtempt — but which they now realize are quite competent and deadly — to do their bidding and make them look good.