The Quit-Iraq Time-Travelers, (New York Post)…Ralph Peters
May 29, 2008.
Whenever retreat-now activists or their favored presidential aspirant are confronted with our progress in Iraq, their stock reply is, “Al Qaeda wasn’t in Iraq in 2003.”
It’s as if, in June 1944, critics had argued from facts frozen in June 1939. (“Why invade Normandy? Hitler’s content with Czechoslovakia.”)
In the course of a war – any war – the situation changes, enemies evolve and goals shift. A war to preserve the Union becomes a war to end slavery; a war to defeat one set of totalitarian systems empowers a new network of tyrannies. It’s a rare war whose end can be forecast neatly at its outset.
Highlights the need for for an improved method of communicating facts and information to include the expected long and short term indicators of success.
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