The Democrats are losing their bet on an American defeat in Iraq

Good old Charles Krauthammer has an interesting article at Real Clear Politics on the emotional and political investment the Demog- er, Democrats have in an American defeat in Iraq.

Krauthammer quotes previously vehement occupation critic Anthony Cordesman: "No one can spend some 10 days visiting the battlefields in Iraq without seeing major progress in every area. ... If the U.S. provides sustained support to the Iraqi government -- in security, governance, and development -- there is now a very real chance that Iraq will emerge as a secure and stable state."

If even Cordesman notices that, why is it that Nancy Pelosi and Barak Obama and the rest of the Democratic Far Left don't? The answer is simple: they badly want the United States to lose in Iraq, and they are politically committed to that outcome.

Any prospect to the contrary challenges their entire foreign policy argument going into the Fall campaign.

The Democrats are playing right into John McCain's hands with their continued, distasteful, and openly heart-felt devotion to the prospect of their own country being defeated in this war by the barbarians of the Iraqi Resistance.

Good.