Shifting Sands

There is no shortage of Iraq round-ups popping up in the blogosphere in anticipation of the upcoming vote. Wretchard at The Belmont Club discusses the shifting nature of the analyses coming from much of the nation's punditry relative to current events on the ground. He writes:

Some pundits will now qualify their past analysis to say that predictions America would be defeated in Iraq did not really mean a military defeat like Vietnam, when NVA tanks rammed down the presidential palace gates in Saigon, but a more subtle political defeat, still certain, yet to come. One of the nice things about discussing post-modern warfare is that definitions of defeat and victory have become so elastic that the one may be impersonated by the other. Yet historical revisionism cannot amend the fact that once doubt has entered into the church of defeat there is no return to perfect faith. Honest men of the Left must recognize that the US might actually have already won the military battle, a horror in itself; and even worse, might actually win the political fight ahead.

Here's some insightful analysis from an Iraqi voter named Betty Dawisha:

"Anybody who doesn't appreciate what America has done, and President Bush, let them go to hell!"

Watch the video at The Political Teen.