The July 21, 2007, edition of the Washington Post carries an editorial titled The Phony Debate.
Excerpts:
The decision of Democrats led by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev.) to deny rather than nourish a bipartisan agreement is, of course, irresponsible. But so was Mr. Reid’s answer when he was asked by the Los Angeles Times how the United States should manage the explosion of violence that the U.S. intelligence community agrees would follow a rapid pullout. “That’s a hypothetical. I’m not going to get into it,” the paper quoted the Democratic leader as saying.
For now Mr. Reid’s cynical politicking and willful blindness to the stakes in Iraq don’t matter so much....But a Democratic strategy of trying to use Iraq as a polarizing campaign issue and as a club against moderate Republicans who are up for reelection will certainly have the effect of making consensus impossible—and deepening the trouble for Iraq and for American security.
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