Claiming Defeat in Victory

The wildly successful elections in Iraq are a victory of the first magnitude in the War on Terror. It is comparable to other turning points of history: The Magna Charta, The American Revolution, and The Emancipation Proclamation. It is also the Turn of the Tide for the war, and the beginning of the end for tyranny in the Middle East. It we are not careful, all could still be lost. In the midst of victory, liberals are claiming defeat, and pressuring President Bush to cut and run, by calling for an early troop withdrawal. Such a move would be disastrous, and give the impression of exhaustion and weakness. It is reminiscent of the retreat from Vietnam during the Nixon Administration, yet it wasn’t Republicans who led us into that dreadful conflict. They have also tried to blame Americans for the problems in the Middle East, instead of placing fault where it belongs, on the terrorists. It was radical Islam who started this war, while our troops are finishing it, if they are allowed to continue. If victory in the elections are judged, America is winning, and gloriously so, not merely hanging on.