But the problem with Iraq is in some sense with us as much as the Iraqis. By past standards of American wars, we would have thought we were not doing all that badly: we have lost fewer soldiers per month of this war than in any prior conflict other than the Revolutionary War-while going 7,000 miles abroad to depose a tyrant and foster democracy where it never existed. It is easy to blame the Iraqis, but what is remarkable is that so far the government still operates, Saddam will meet his fate, and the insurgents' own communiques don't suggest that they are winning. Had we not fought abroad in both Iraq and Afghanistan, then the old notion that theocracies host terrorists, while dictators are free to recycle petrodollars to obtain high-tech weapons, threaten their neighbors, and subsidize, even if only opportunistically so, terrorists would have remained unquestioned in a post-September 11 world. That we have had no repeat of 9/11 is no accident.
No thanks to the Democrats who opposed NSA wiretaps, the SWIFT program and the patriot act.
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