[ohioWfan]

In December 2006, President George W. Bush was faced with a similarly difficult foreign policy decision. The Republicans had suffered tremendous losses in the November election, in part because of the conduct of the war in Iraq. At the time, the unpopular Republican president was being pressured by ascendant congressional Democrats and some members of his own party into withdrawing from Iraq. Failure in Iraq loomed, as public opinion for the effort to help the democratically elected government survive had faded thanks to a series of tactical blunders and inaccurate assessments of what would be needed to accomplish the mission.

Then, against all reasonable predictions, President Bush chose to increase rather than decrease our military commitment. The "surge," as it became known, worked. Victory was snatched from the jaws of defeat.

Actually, the surge was decided on and planned for before the November election. One of the principle reasons for the "tremendous losses" was that almost no Republicans in Congress defended the need for the war in Iraq, nor stood with the President in calling for a victory there. Our troops were abandoned by almost everyone except President Bush.

But other than that error, GOOD for Kerrey for telling the truth about Obama and his naive apologetic, (anti-American) pseudo-foreign policy.

[kristinn]

Between, Kerrey and Dianne Feinstein, there looks to be trouble brewing in the party.

It's funny, since they last got away with it in Vietnam, no matter what the polls show, those with most at stake with the voters seem to end up voting for victory. They may not talk like that all the time, but most politicians have figured out that deep down the American people don't like to lose wars.

[DrDeb]

Thank you for your correction and analysis!

. . . And thank you President Bush for your courage and vision — you are missed!

[1035rep]

GOOD for Kerrey for telling the truth about Obama and his naive apologetic, (anti-American) pseudo-foreign policy.

Ditto!