Are We There Yet? Victory in Iraq and the 2008 Election

Published: July 21, 2008, 4:38 pm

McCain Can Run On Having Won The War. But Have We? "Events, dear boy, events." --Former British PM Harold Macmillan on the greatest threat to any government's plans. "In chaos there is opportunity" --Variously attributed. It's time for Republicans to decide: are we willing to stake the election on the proposition that we have won the war in Iraq? I. Prelude: Early 2007 Way back at the beginning of 2007, at the beginning of the marathon primary race, the Republican frontrunner, John McCain, and the Democratic upstart, Barack Obama, committed themselves to their respective strategies for the Iraq War. McCain, a vocal supporter of the war and leader in the debate about the war as far back as 2002 - and, indeed, one of the leading voices on every public foreign policy controversy of the last two decades - stubbornly declared that he would "rather lose an election than lose a war," and committed the success of his campaign to the success of the "surge," the

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