The Surge Straddle
Jacob Laksin
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“As an exercise in counterintuitive reasoning, see if you can identify the authors of these recent quotes:

“More American troops have brought more peace to more parts of Iraq. I think that’s a fact.”
“The military aspects of President Bush’s new strategy in Iraq … appear to have produced some credible and positive results.”
“We’ve begun to change tactics in Iraq, and in some areas, particularly in Al Anbar Province, it’s working.”

A White House spokesman? General Petraeus? A Fox News talking head or a FrontPageMag.com columnist?

None of the above. All three quotes come courtesy of top Democratic senators. The first is from Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois; the second is from Michigan’s Carl Levin; and the third is from none other than Hillary Clinton.
That may come as a surprise. Despite his newly discovered appreciation for the armed forces, Sen. Durbin is best known for sliming American troops at Guantanamo Bay as the effective heirs of “Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings.” Still, Durbin is apparently willing to acknowledge that these savages, coldly indifferent to human suffering, are bringing “peace” to Iraq.”
Jenny Hatch