7/19/2008:Commentary: Review of Obama's Speech On Tuesday: The Iraq
War!

On Tuesday, Barack Obama gave an address on the Iraq War. It was a
bizarre speech, as if it had been written two years ago, when it would
have made more sense. Liberals ought to hate the speech. It will make
their side vulnerable to the common conservative charge that they
ignore crucial facts in favor of manufacturing their own reality.

The crucial facts in this case, absent two years ago, and which have
been emphasized repeatedly in recent months by bibles of the left,
from the New York Times to the Washington Post, is that the
reconstruction effort in Iraq has improved tremendously under General
Petraeus, to the point where we are not only winning in Iraq but, some
say, we may have already won. Obama’s speech is a troubling example of
ignoring everything that has happened for the better over the last 18
months, suggestive instead of a defeated nation that needs to
immediately hop on the last helicopter out of Saigon.