Robert Greer Cohn

    Those, like Steny Hoyer, who want to cut and run from Iraq because they hadn’t bargained for a civil war there when they voted to go in, are like a climber on Mount Hood who wants down because he hadn’t figured on cold winds or snow.
    Those are ugly incidentals, backdrop.  The point remains that a good soldier fights his way to the top regardless.  The civil war is a problem only if the contestants turn on us.  If they just kill each other, they do our work for us, in terms of actual fighting.
    True, stabilization is made harder by the internal civil strife.  But that never should have been a short-term goal, rather, one achievable only after a “long, hard slog” as our leaders at one time honestly put it—there was never a chance for Iraq and environs to be other than a quagmire, like every serious war we ever fought: the price of survival.