Common Sense

Thank you, John Podhoretz, for a badly needed dose of common sense:

THE most common cliché about the war in Iraq is now this: We didn't have a plan, and now everything is in chaos; we didn't have a plan, and now we can't win.

This is entirely wrong. We did have a plan - the problem is that the plan didn't work. And of course we can win - we just have to choose to do so.

As this blog has noted time and time again, nothing can defeat the mighty U.S. military except a failure of will here at home. The problem is that the majority of Americans -- as Victor Davis Hansen has pointed out -- aren't sure that the fight is worth it, or even necessary.

And, of course, many of their representatives in Washington are, it seems, all too willing to see the U.S. humiliated and defeated -- anything to give President Bush a black eye is OK with them.