The Dim Bulb Defeatocrats
It's hard to suggest that Mark Steyn has outdone himself again when you've read his stuff so much, and seemingly said such a thing a hundred times. Yet here we are again.
This week, both the House and the Senate voted for defeat in Iraq. That's to say, Congress got tired of waiting for deadbeat insurgents to get their act together and inflict devastating military humiliation on U.S. forces. So America's legislators have voted to mandate the certainty of defeat. They want the withdrawal of American forces to begin this October, which is a faintly surreal concept: Watching CNN International around the world, many viewers unversed in America's constitutional arrangements will have been puzzled by the spectacle of a nation giving six months' notice of surrender. But the cannier types in the presidential palaces will have drawn their own conclusions.Yes, it's true - the Defeatocrats have outfrenched the French. Not content to simply give up immediately, they have been kind enough to provide advanced warning that we're going to default on our lease on sanity. Unfortunately, I can guarantee we won't get our security deposit back.
