Saturday, April 14, 2007

Forcing U.S. to quit in Iraq::By Charles Krauthammer

"By the day, the debate at home about Iraq becomes increasingly disconnected from the realities of the actual war on the ground. The Democrats in Congress are so consumed with negotiating among their factions the most clever linguistic device to legislatively ensure the failure of the administration's current military strategy -- while not appearing to do so -- that they speak almost not at all about the first visible results of that strategy.
And preliminary results are visible. The landscape is shifting in the two fronts of the current troop surge: Anbar province and Baghdad.


Marine Corps Commandant James T. Conway greets Iraqi border enforcement troops at a fort in far western Anbar province on the Syrian border, last Friday, April 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Robert Burns) The news from Anbar is the most promising. Only last fall, the Marines' leading intelligence officer there concluded that the U.S. had essentially lost the fight to al-Qaeda. Yet, just this week, the marine commandant, Gen. James Conway, returned from a four-day visit to the province and reported that we 'have turned the corner.' "

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