My Dog Ate My Moral Authority

“Our military has increasing moral authority in Iraq, but the same cannot be said for our government at home. In fact, it’s in moral deficit. . . . Washington has no moral clout in Iraq. Washington looks like a circus act. The authority is coming from our military. The importance of this fact would be difficult to understate.” — MICHAEL YON

There is nothing funny about an unnecessary war that has taken nearly 4,000 American lives and many tens of thousands of Iraqi lives. But I find it mildly amusing in a Keystone Kops sort of way — and sadly predictable in an Only in America Today way — that Democrats are falling all over themselves in joining Republicans to declare the surge a success in the run-up to General Petraeus’ anxiously awaited September progress report. And in the same breath are giving President Bush a big green light to dump the whole stinking mess in his successor’s lap.

Let’s dissect this turn of events . . .

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