Cut and Run or Trim and Trot?

By Jed Babbin

Don't bother to look for the words "win" or "victory" in any of the Democrats' new proposals for Iraq. They aren't there because those concepts aren't part of the Dems' thinking. That we lose the war is their foundation and it's only a question of how and when. The Dems have decided that the Iraqis can be left on their own - now - regardless of the consequences.

Democratic Party leaders apparently can't grasp the fact that while most Americans don't like the way the president is handling the war, the public is also disgusted with Democrats' failure to come up with a better plan to win, and not just another plan to retreat. People such as Howard Dean and Harry Reid are impervious to the thought that Americans see the cut-and-run crew as nothing more than a stomach-turning reprise of the Dem antiwar protesters of the Vietnam era. The cut-and-run crowd got a new name last Tuesday: They're "ACE Democrats" in the words of retired Air Force Lt. General Thomas McInerny - "ACE" having nothing to do with shooting down enemy aircraft. Instead, in McInerny's formulation it's an acronym for giving "Aid and Comfort to the Enemy." Read on.