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June 01, 2007

Worth Reading
Posted by Heather Hurlburt

My friends over at the Washington Monthly have put together a superb package on the complexities of military opinion about Iraq and US presidential politics.  Crazy-like-a-fox Spencer Ackerman leads off with reporting on his latest Iraq embed, summarizing with this:

The uncomfortable reality is this: nothing in Iraq worth fighting for remains achievable, and nothing achievable in Iraq remains worth fighting for. Democrats have made the decision—rightly, I think—that withdrawing from Iraq is the least bad of many bad options. But they shouldn’t kid themselves into thinking that a majority of the troops doing the fighting agree with them. For soldiers like Lieutenant Wellman, this will be hard to accept. As he told me of war doubters back home, “I don’t want them to just support the troops. I want them to support the mission.” This matters, because pretending that in ending the war they’re doing the troops a favor hurts Democrats politically. They risk looking condescending, and, worse, oblivious—which has the broader effect of undermining public trust in the Democrats to handle national security. More basically, it does a disservice to those who serve. For soldiers who are optimistic, being told that the war can’t be won is bad enough. But to be told that politicians are doing them a favor by extricating them from a mission they believe in is downright insulting.

The Monthly follows with seven short pieces from Iraq veterans across the center-to-left of the military spectrum; they capture nicely the ambivalence and range of views that Spencer's piece suggests, from "let's get out" to "let's win."  Frankly, that ambivalence continues to have strong echoes among the larger non-ideological public -- and it will play an important role in the general election next year, a political reality that I wish the most strident out-now advocates would spend a little more time contemplating.

June 01, 2007 at 11:42 AM |

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Speaking as a strident out now advocate, let me just say that we've had four years to contemplate it, and we'll probably have another 18 months to ponder it (during which time approximately 1500 more soldiers will be blasted to pieces for no purpose). In the end, the mission is insane and I'm not sure how you finesse this. The people who still talk about finishing the mission -- which is still undefined -- have to wake up sometime. This dream kills.

BTW, it's funny you should talk about the "non-ideological" public, because the whole thrust of your post is that the public is half hoping to find a pony and will blame anyone who tells them they can't have it. In other words, it's the "strident out now advocates" who are being objective here, and the non-ideologues are the fantasists.

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