Why Cut and Run?

I don't know if it's been said elsewhere, but I think it's clear why so many liberals are advocating cut and run. And it's not because they think our strategy there is failing.

It's because they think it will succeed.

And what a nightmare that will be for all the naysayers who scoffed at the "cowboy" from Texas. What an embarrassment for those who consider themselves the enlightened. And what a disaster for upcoming elections.

It's repugnant, I know, to think that they may be doing this - denying freedom to the Iraqis, allowing the insurgency to flourish - for such crass and selfish reasons. But I can see no other explanation for their constant cries to cut and run. Are they really concerned about our soldiers? Well, then why advocate surrender? Why bring all their efforts, and the sacrifice of their fallen, to naught? Why save their lives and sell their honor? No, it's not for them.

Is it because it's a bad plan? Well, it's the same plan Bush offered at the beginning - just badly executed, truncated before the underlying security infrastructure is in place.

Is it for the American people? To save on the cost of war? Well, what about the cost of a few more 9/11's? Because that's what cut and run will bring.

So they intend to nip Iraqi democracy in the bud before it can succeed. At any cost. Before it can vindicate the man they hate above all others. Because it will embarrass Bush.

And no price is too great for that.

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