From the Olympian: U.S. Rep. Brian Baird said Thursday that his recent trip to Iraq convinced him the military needs more time in the region, and that a hasty pullout would cause chaos that helps Iran and harms U.S. security. “I believe that the decision to invade Iraq and the post-invasion management of that country were among the largest foreign-policy mistakes in the history of our nation. I voted against

You’ve heard all this before from me, so let’s use our Friday creatively and hear it instead from a Democrat — albeit from an inauthentic Democrat, according to the Czar of the New American Center. From the WSJ: Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar is today fond of quoting a famous Lyndon Johnson line: “You know the difference between cannibals and liberals? Cannibals only eat their enemies.” [Hector Cuellar] Mr. Cuellar would

Given the steady drumbeat of defeatism that has defined the Iraq narrative over the past several years, this is, as Jules Crittenden argues, nothing short of miraculous. Of course, CNN is not so much interested in what Americans believe about the kind of progress being made in Iraq as it is with gauging just how effective the anti-war media campaign has been at poisoning the epistemic well in advance of