Not Again!

Well, it has really started. Yesterday, Congressman Murtha, a Viet Nam veteran from Pennsylvania, called for the U.S. to pull the troops out of Iraq. I thought we learned not to fight wars we didn't intend to win and that our troops can't be defeated but our politicians can be. Iraq citizens watch this stuff and since our disgraceful abandonment of the Kurds and others in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, they are bound to be skittish about committing to fight the insurgents who are certain to be keeping lists of those who collaborate with us now. If they decide to sit back and wait to see if we perservere, it will be harder to reach the stated objective of having Iraq fight their own insurgency. The problem is not so much a lone Congressman but the sad fact that we have an inarticulate President who can't seem to muster the words and tactics to rally the public to his cause. I am depressed by it all.