Opinion: Let’s get ready to ruuummmble!
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Jonah Goldberg, in his surge OpEd from Friday’s L.A. Times:
President Bush made it clear that he will settle for nothing less than winning it. He may be deluding himself, and his plan may not work, but he at least has done the nation the courtesy of saying what his position is, despite an antagonistic political establishment and a hostile public. What is maddening is that the Democratic leadership cannot, or will not, clearly tell the American people whether they are the party of ‘end it’ or ‘win it.’
Rosa Brooks, in her surge OpEd from today’s L.A. Times:
Jonah Goldberg praised President Bush for telling Americans that ‘he will settle for nothing less than winning’ in Iraq. Sure, Goldberg acknowledged, Bush ‘may be deluding himself,’ but at least he’s ‘trying to win.’ No, he’s not.
From a secure, undisclosed location, Goldberg hits back:
Brooks’ column strikes me as deeply cynical in that rather than make this moral case, she thinks she needs to explain to the Democrats why it would be in their political interest to do what she believes is a moral and strategic imperative. She may be right, but that reflects a problem with the Democrats, not my column.
Hecklers alert: Bait Brooks, goad Goldberg, or badger both, in the comments.