Mohamed Hussein, an Iraqi employee of the New York Times who fled to Syria in 2006, has returned to his neighborhood in Baghdad and files a report for the paper’s Baghdad Bureau Blog:
It’s worth reading the whole thing. And it’s worth pondering just what a withdrawal would mean for the people of Iraq, even as the Democrats refuse to offer any such speculation. If we are to abandon these people to sectarian violence, terrorism, and warlordism, it will not be enough to simply say that things are bad now, and are just as likely to get worse if we leave as if we stay. Things are better. So wouldn’t it be foolish to squander the opportunity presented here–the chance to foster the notion that America is the protector of the Sunni? We’re winning the battle for hearts and minds and all anyone on the left can talk about is getting out as soon as possible to leave the Iraqis to their fate. And they claim to make that argument from the moral high-ground. If McCain said anything like this…how long until the left mocked him as ignorant of the facts on the ground? HT: Instapundit
