Hadley Sees Violence Subsiding
Appearing this morning on CBS’ Face the Nation, Stephen Hadley said that the White House was optimistic that the violence was subsiding. Naturally, a Democrat stepped forward to criticize his statement.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA), said more sectarian violence and a failure to form a government would bring the country “a step away from major civil war. The worst thing would be for the United States to get caught in the middle,” Feinstein told CNN’s “Late Edition.” Feinstein criticized Bush for not stating his plan for dealing with a civil war if one were to develop. “This is a deteriorating situation, and we have to deal with it as such and not just say, ‘I’m optimistic,’” she said.
I’m getting tired of the Democrats’ whining about our military plans for every contingency. Are they saying we should announce to the entire world what we’d do if something happens so they’d know what to do to counter our strategy? Besides, what’s to say that the plan would work based on a thousand different variables that aren’t knowable beforehand?
It’s also worth noting that Lt. Col. Bill Cowan, appearing on Friday night’s O’Reilly Factor, said that it’s important that American soldiers be in their bases during this violence, not in the streets. Cowan retired from the USMC and is now a senior military analyst for FNC. I don’t suppose that that’s good enough for Feinstein, though, because she sounds like she knows better than the military.
Also, if Mrs. Feinstein weren’t so quick to criticize, she might’ve read this AP article. Here’s the most important part:
The government also decided not to extend the ban on private vehicles in Baghdad because of an easing of the sectarian crisis and the impact of the heightened security on the public, an Interior Ministry official said Sunday.
I’m not predicting that this means that all violence is over but it is improving as more Sunni and Shi’ite clerics are coming together to renounce the violence. Even Muqtada al-Sadr is looking like a statesman of sorts.
Now if only we could get the Democrats to start sounding like statesmen we’d be alot better off…
Cross-post at LetFreedomRing