On the front page of today’s Washington Post we can see the outline of what may become a devastating narrative for the Obama administration and the left. Yesterday’s brutal attacks in Iraq, which left more than 80 dead, are tied directly to President Obama’s push for a hasty withdrawal:
These small outposts and inner-city bases were at the core of the surge strategy that routed al Qaeda from everywhere but Mosul and a few other areas in the north of the country. Now as those bases are being dismantled, the violence is returning. Obama and the Democrats assured the American people that a withdrawal would hasten national reconciliation in Iraq — that the only way to get results from Iraqis was to make clear to them that American troops would not remain in the country indefinitely, or even for much longer than it would take to get them and their equipment out of the country. That theory is now being tested, and the early indicators are not promising.
