That's of no interest to them. All that matters is that America is defeated while a Republican president is in office.With Democrats everything is always about them, what they can gain through someone else's loss, even if the loser is their own country.
“Hanson makes the mistake of assuming Democrats are capable of expressing genuine concern about the present situation in Iraq.”
Maybe he assumes that (I don’t know, as a fact, that he does) and maybe he’s just letting his reader see that appropriate conclusion for themselves - apparent in the Democrats own conflicted (past vs present) positions - without Victor stating the obvious.