Democrats caught in a time-warp where Iraq is concerned

While Barack Obama's patent lack of qualifications for the White House and Hillary Clinton's less than stellar resume prevent me from endorsing the main argument of this article, it does contain four remarkable paragraphs which point out facts the American people need to meditate upon:

The Democrats and most of the national media seem not to have noticed that the defeatist truisms about Iraq have passed their sell-by date. Senator Clinton and Senator Obama seem to assume that the great majority of their countrymen recognize the Iraq expedition to have been a disaster and that that is the end of it.

The latest intelligence findings in Iraq, generally ignored by the national and world media, detailing Saddam Hussein’s long and extensive promotion of terrorism, leave the Republicans with plenty of room to reargue the casus belli. Iraq’s 75% reduction in violence, 30% increase in oil production, taming of al-Sadr and other factional leaders, and possibly the world’s highest annual economic growth rate since the upward “surge” in U.S. forces, seem not to have entered into the Democratic electoral strategy.

Senator Obama is proud of having opposed the war from the start. Senator Clinton is still trying to explain how she went from initial support to outright opposition, to a vague notion of gradual withdrawal not necessarily different from the administration’s policy.

Neighbouring Gulf states have expressed their satisfaction at the American presence and progress in Iraq. And Senator McCain, who approved the invasion, criticized the occupation and supported the surge, will sound a good deal more like a plausible commander-in-chief than his Democratic rivals.

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, their acolytes in the media, and the Democratic party generally is simply out of touch when it comes to Iraq, caught in a time-warp that fails to realize that an issue that seemed like a certain winner for them only a few months ago no longer qualifies.

HT: Real Clear Politics