Going Wobbly

Victor Davis Hanson with a must-read on conservatives' GWOT feet of clay:

In recent weeks prominent conservatives — William F. Buckley, Niall Ferguson, Francis Fukuyama, George Will, to a name only a very few — have, in various ways, suggested that the war in Iraq was either a mistake or unwinnable, or both. The blowing up of the shrine at Samarra, together with subsequent sectarian killings in Baghdad and the failure so far to form an executive branch, were the most recent catalysts that apparently pushed a great number of wearied observers over the edge.

Sometimes such remorse is coupled with louder lamentations about the failed foreign policy of the Bush administration — especially the malevolent influence of neoconservatives and their mania for democracy.

There are many reasons why such pessimism, and indeed depression, is unwarranted — although I concede that very few Americans and still fewer pundits would agree with my own explanations.

The exceptionally well-manicured Georgetown political philoshophers who make up the righty punditocracy don't have the stomach for a sustained and bloody conflict. Unfortunately, Zarqawi and Bin Laden don't lack spine.

We must keep on until the war is won.

Regardless of how it impacts the wobblies' book sales or green room appearances.