Can people get rid of the Benghazi and Afghanistan casualties so easily?

If it makes Americans feel better to put the blame of Iraq on Iraqis, that is human nature. Who are you going to blame and what difference will it make, when the chickens come home to rooster and Americans have nowhere left to run or blame?

Will the people who said democracy was impossible in Iraq, say the same thing about America?

The same was said about Asia.

The project was progressing in Iraq at the point we left. Nascent and imperfect, but no more imperfect than Korea at a similar stage and progressing.

It still strikes me that the essential element, removed from Iraq when we left, is security.

The Left, so long as they exist, won’t allow Islamic JIhad to be defeated either here or there. So thus the first goal must be to clean up the home front, if the longer term objective is the Islamic world. That goes true for many things in life. There is no house without a foundation.

That in and of itself is a sign of our decline and our refusal to address the issue of islam in a forthright manner. What more scorn can the MSM and the ‘progressives’ heap upon Cheney? He has nothing to lose in the court of the left’s opinion.

The term islam does not mean peace, it means submission. While this does not apply to all muslims, it does apply to muslims who wage jihad — either against the world at large or the sunni against shia schism; these are ruthless murders beyond the pale. All their heads belong at the business end of a pike.

The difference between a human striving to do his best and an actor playing a role.

He may know it but feel he cannot say it.