Iraq was once again the main topic on the Sunday shows. Over at Fox News Sunday, WEEKLY STANDARD contributor Frederick Kagan took on Democratic notions that no political progress is being made in the troubled country.
“I think we’ve focused excessively on centralized legislation, which is one of the hardest things to do given the makeup of the Iraqi government. And we have a problem that we’ve got a huge amount of political progress taking place at the grassroots in Iraq–especially in Anbar, but not just in Anbar–that isn’t accounted for in these benchmarks. So the question is at the same time as you have people demanding that we change our military strategy from month to month they’re insisting that we continue to pursue the same political strategy all through without any changes or any accounting for variations in the situation in Iraq. It doesn’t make sense.”
On Meet the Press, Senators Lindsey Graham and Jim Webb shared this testy exchange over the war.
John McCain’s collapsing presidential campaign has been the most important development in the race for 2008 in recent weeks. Karen Tumulty of Time magazine summed up his predicament on Face the Nation.
“Well, of course, you never say never in politics. But the real question here, at least for me, is where does any new support for John McCain come from? And where does any new money come from? Who is really going to want to be writing checks to this campaign that has shown that, you know, all they can do is waste money? And I think that what’s interesting is how little this has seemed to affect the rest of the field. Mitt Romney is down in the national polls, but everywhere you go in those early states, people tell you he’s running the best campaign on the ground.”
