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What we do know is that for all our mistakes, free elections have been held in a largely Arab Muslim country. We know that the Kurds in the north enjoy freedoms and a nascent civil society that is a huge improvement on the past. We know that the culture of the marsh Arabs in the south is beginning to revive. We know that we have given Iraqis a chance to decide their own destiny through politics rather than murder and that civil war is still avoidable. We know that the enemies of democracy in Iraq will not stop there if they succeed. And we know that no perfect war has ever been fought, and no victory ever won, without the risk of defeat. Despair, in other words, is too easy now. And it too is a form of irresponsibility.
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Sullivan has pretty much summarized my perspective on the war in this paragraph.
I think the Left's desire to turn this into "Bush's quagmire" only exacerbates that level of irresponsibility, and to withdraw from Iraq now would certainly bite us in the ass down the road.
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