Neocon Frank Gaffney: Obama will have the loss of Iraq as one of its most signal accomplishments

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/06/wars-outcome-now-in-doubt/

GAFFNEY: War's outcome now in doubt

by Frank J. Gaffney Jr.


Back in February, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. declared: "I am very optimistic about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration." Even for a politician much given to strategic ineptitude compounded by foot-in-mouth disease, that was a doozy.

As has been pointed out innumerable times since, if Iraq turns out to be a truly "great achievement" in any ordinary sense of the word, Mr. Biden and President Obama - two of the most insistent opponents of George W. Bush's efforts to consolidate Iraq's liberation - are among the last people in Washington who should take credit.

Worse yet, unfortunately for the Iraqi people and others who love freedom, it looks increasingly as though the Obama administration will have the loss of Iraq as one of its most signal accomplishments.

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It may be that Team Obama is calculating that the American people are so sick of these conflicts and the associated costs in blood and treasure that they will consider cutting our losses to be a "great achievement" - irrespective of the consequences. After all, a generation ago, their ideological forefathers led the United States in abandoning the South Vietnamese, without obvious political fallout here at home. To the extent that Republicans are increasingly signaling a determination to run next fall on a platform silent on national security matters, they may be right, at least in the short run.

There should be no doubt, however, that the repercussions of the Obama administration losing Iraq will cost us dearly in the future as adherents to Shariah around the world are reinforced in their conviction of that our defeat and submission is preordained. Even if, at the moment, we cannot fully comprehend the implications of such a perception, we will know from here on out whose "great achievement" precipitated the resulting horror for America and the rest of what was once the Free World.