The Iraq Surrender Group report
Frank Gaffney:
H.D.S. Greenway has a column today blaming the problems in Iraq on wishful thinking in the Bush administration that does not acknowledge the irony of the success of wishful thinking on the left. The left has been wishing for a defeat since the war started and was noticeably disappointed when the major combat operations phase of the war was successful so quickly. They quickly went to work trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and had some success in creating talking points for the enemy. It is surprising they have not sued for theft of "intellectual" property. It is this wishing for defeat that has kept the enemy's hopes alive. Without it he would have had to give up long ago since he has clearly lost on the battlefield and in the hearts and minds of the Iraqis. His only hope is that wishful thinkers like Greenway could persuade the US to lose. The wishful thinkers of the left and our enemies have worked well together so far.
Tomorrow, an unelected, unaccountable and substantially unqualified commission will formally report what hasn't already been leaked about its recommendations with respect to the conflict in Iraq. The title of the commission is the Iraq Study Group (ISG). Given the nature of its contribution, a better name would be the "Iraq Surrender Group."The suggestions of talks with the Iranians and Syrians is at best a waste of time. It is based on the false premise that these two states have an interest in seeing a stable Iraq. Nothing could be further from reality. It is the wishful thinking of the State Department and the left.
Led by former Republican Secretary of State James Baker and former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton, the ISG's members have reportedly decided that the United States must withdraw its forces from Iraq, that we must start doing so in substantial numbers by 2008 and that we have to open negotiations with Iran and its wholly owned subsidiary, Syria.
An early indication of the way in which this bipartisan diktat will be received in official Washington can be seen in the vacuous response of the incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware announced over the weekend that the president should accept the surrender commission's report -- even before its complete contents become known.
The good news is that George W. Bush has made known, both publicly and privately, that he has no intention of surrendering to our Islamofascist and other enemies in Iraq. He understands something that has evidently eluded the ISG's worthies: We are in a global war and that, if we run from Iraq, there is nowhere to hide.
Mr. Bush insists that withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq will be tied to success -- not compelled by failure. And he has declared that he will not negotiate with the two countries most responsible for the proxy war (not to be confused with a "civil" war) going on in Iraq today: Iran and its puppet, Syria.
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H.D.S. Greenway has a column today blaming the problems in Iraq on wishful thinking in the Bush administration that does not acknowledge the irony of the success of wishful thinking on the left. The left has been wishing for a defeat since the war started and was noticeably disappointed when the major combat operations phase of the war was successful so quickly. They quickly went to work trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and had some success in creating talking points for the enemy. It is surprising they have not sued for theft of "intellectual" property. It is this wishing for defeat that has kept the enemy's hopes alive. Without it he would have had to give up long ago since he has clearly lost on the battlefield and in the hearts and minds of the Iraqis. His only hope is that wishful thinkers like Greenway could persuade the US to lose. The wishful thinkers of the left and our enemies have worked well together so far.
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