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To the Editor:As a lifelong Democrat, I’m ashamed of this pullout vote. It neither serves the best interests of the country, nor will it shorten the war a single day. It may be good political theater, but it’s not leadership.
Iraq can no longer be isolated from Afghanistan, or from the wider war on terrorism. If car bombs are allowed to succeed in Iraq, they will be used elsewhere.
Terror is an idea; it knows no borders. Iraq may be a bloody civil war, but it has surely also become the central front of the war on terror, as the president claims. This is an outcome that many of us who opposed the war predicted, and that we deplore, but that does not make it any less true.
President Bush has made long overdue but well-regarded changes in leadership: his secretary of defense and his military commander on the ground. They should be given a chance.
If Democrats in Congress truly want to shorten the war, they should accept these realities and focus on areas where the president is still lagging, like jobs and economic development in Iraq and regional diplomacy.
Ron Cohen
Waltham, Mass., March 24, 2007 [Emphasis added.]
If George is still in the White House then he hasn't made "well-regarded changes."
QED
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