Pew Research Poll: Majority of Americans Believe U.S. Effort in Iraq Will Succeed
More bad news for the cut-and-run Democratic Party. A new Pew Research Poll finds that 53% of Americans believe the effort in Iraq will be successful. The surge strategy has irrefutably worked, a point begrudgingly admitted even by Obama during the recent debates. Since the Democrats have spent the last year investing in a narrative of defeat, it will be interesting to see how they respond to this issue come the general election.
The Democrats have provided Republicans a deep reservoir of material with which to be skewered on this issue. Most Democrats, with the possible exception of Senator Joe Lieberman, scoffed at the tactical and strategic objectives of the surge before it even started. And, even when the positive results of the surge were manifest and undeniable, the Democrats still refused to acknowledge success for purely political reasons.
Obama embodies the New Age Leftism view of our involvement in Iraq: to wit, Al Queda would not have been in Iraq if we hadn’t invaded. A corollary of this spurious proposition is the notion that the war in Iraq has been responsible for breeding terrorism. How do those who tenaciously cling to this view explain the fact that acts of terrorism aimed at the United States long pre-dated our involvement in Iraq?
Beacon Street Journal
Friday, February 29, 2008
By John Kinsellagh
