Informed Speculation

Well said:

Let’s…hope this election mutes the Howard Deans, Jack Murthas and others who say the war is “unwinnable.” The scope of yesterday’s vote shows again that the insurgency lacks any broad base of support inside Iraq. If a new government is skillful in accommodating Sunni demands for representation and for sharing oil revenues, the terrorist room to operate will further shrink. There’s a reason Abu Musab al-Zarqawi worried in a letter last year that “Democracy is coming, and there will be no excuse [for violence] thereafter.”

We’re increasingly confident that victory in Iraq is not only possible but likely. The biggest threat to winning now is in Washington, D.C. Let’s hope that with their tremendous vote yesterday Iraqis delivered faint-hearted U.S. politicians the necessary dose of fortitude.

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