Delight in Handing Dems a Lump of Coal
Mark Davis is ready to proclaim success in Iraq. It's a sign of how bad things are when a largely completed ethnic cleansing and a continuing bitter sectarian divide can be judged success. Whatever. About Vietnam, Vermont Senator George Aiken famously said that we should "declare victory and go home." Mark Davis is showing that that strategy is still a valid choice today. If Mark Davis thinking we've won in Iraq brings us closer to ending this disastrous war, let him crow.
But what's happening in Iraq is almost incidental to Mark Davis' column. His real focus is domestic politics:
"Those of us who believe in what America is trying to do in Iraq have been given a great gift this Christmas season. I would hope our nation could unify in the new year and show our gratitude by letting them enjoy further success unfettered by the ill will and sharp tongues of those who have not yet seen fit to support them."For Mark Davis, the real gift is not a reduction in the killing in Iraq. It's that the reduction gives Mark Davis a club to hit Democrats over the head with. Davis shows more joy in Democrats' supposed political misfortune than he does in our troops' declining casualty rates.
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