The Surge Has Failed? - Need Better Writers Than Michelle Malkin & Her Ilk

Michelle Malkin is ridiculous with her broken-record bleating about “moonbats,” fear-and-warmongering. Does she have any knowledge, whatsoever, about the U.S.’s foreign policies, past or present? Does she have any understanding of Middle Eastern history and Western civilization’s involvement in it? Has she any idea of other perspectives - how people in the Middle East view the modern day establishment of Israel, for example, and how that has gradually grown into the extremist behavior we see today?

There are so many talented and knowledgeable writers out there – Fred Kaplan is the “war stories” writer for Slate. There’s Joseph Galloway with McClatchy Newspapers who General H. Norman Schwarzkopf said was, "The finest combat correspondent of our generation — a soldier's reporter and a soldier's friend."

Paul Krugman is a no-nonsense business writer who doesn’t mince words when it comes to evaluating the effects that Bush’s policies and the Iraq war has wrought.

He reported on the oil deal by the Hunt Oil Company of Dallas with the Iraqi Kurds. Ray L. Hunt, the chief executive and president of Hunt Oil, is one of Bush’s cronies and is a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. This makes him especially aware of the state of affairs in Iraq and in making the deal he is essentially undermining the efforts for the oil-revenue-sharing legislation that everyone has agreed is vital to a united Iraq, Krugman says.

“Follow the oil money, which already knows that the surge has failed…Indeed, he’s effectively betting against the survival of Iraq as a nation in any meaningful sense of the term…

…Here’s how I see it: At this point, Mr. Bush is looking forward to replaying the political aftermath of Vietnam, in which the right wing eventually achieved a rewriting of history that would have made George Orwell proud, convincing millions of Americans that our soldiers had victory in their grasp but were stabbed in the back by the peaceniks back home.

What all this means is that the next president, even as he or she tries to extricate us from Iraq — and prevent the country’s breakup from turning into a regional war — will have to deal with constant sniping from the people who lied us into an unnecessary war, then lost the war they started, but will never, ever, take responsibility for their failures.”