Iraq redux

Brother Jon writes:

Some good news would be welcome about now, so I hope you have some to pass along. Sure won't be any from the political establishment, which is as far as I can tell in full retreat mode, mired in utterly pathetic fantasies about the "realism" of "dialogue" with Amadinejahd, Syria and other enemies in order to sell ourselves and our one friend in the region right down the river. Will we soon find out why they call the pond at its end the DEAD Sea? It's going to be a long and dismal two years, I fear. And if it's Hillary we get, God help us. I may be wrong, I do not think this is 1974 again. But I just do not think the Islamofascist tide as yet lapped up anywhere near enough of us to ignite the inevitable response. Bush may one day be seen not as Truman, which I had hoped, but as a long twilight pre-1941 Roosevelt, hemmed in by appeasers, believers in Neutrality Acts, America Firsters of right and left, transnational morons enlessly seeking to outlaw war. I also accept this analysis of his own mistakes, with which you of course will agree.