Hey, kids ... remember how Canada's Lowest Common Denominatrix™ was creaming herself over the good news from Iraq:
I Hope You're Sitting Down
"A War We Just Might Win"
... etc etc etc ...
Whoopsie:
O’Hanlon begins backpedaling from op-ed.
Just a few days after writing about the progress he saw in Iraq, Brookings analyst Michael O’Hanlon claims that if the situation remains as it is currently, he could not “write another Op-Ed” declaring success:
In an interview on Wednesday, Mr. O’Hanlon said the article was intended to point out that the security situation was currently far better than it was in 2006. What the American military cannot solve, he said, are problems caused by the inability of Iraqis to forge political solutions. “Ultimately, politics trumps all else,” Mr. O’Hanlon said. “If the political stalemate goes on, even if the military progress continued, I don’t see how I could write another Op-Ed saying the same thing.”
I'm fairly sure you won't be reading about this latest development over at Small Dead Brainstems because that would be, you know, fair and balanced, and Kate doesn't do fair and balanced. But you didn't need me to tell you that, did you?
1 comment:
Even if O'Hanlon stood by "it's a war we just might win", that's a far cry from the original assessment, which had the whole thing lasting about an hour and a quarter, and makes "Mission Accomplished" look pretty stupid, too. So it should be an embarrassment for Kate to be trumpeting it in the first place. Maybe it's just really hard to find crow on that part of the prairie.
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