The Chickens Roosting at the Times

The New York Times doesn't even try to support its anti-war positions anymore. It just takes it for granted that the war in Iraq is a quagmire. I don't think it's really the war they care about anymore. Since I don't really want to give them another link to their vile whining, I'll refer to Tom Maguire's quotes from the editorial. When did we accept the presumption that the editorial boards of liberal newspapers are more qualified than the Pentagon and those fighting a war to judge how well it's being run? From everything I've read and heard from the White House, I had no expectations that this would be easy or quick. Where did these people get the idea that it would be. Our troops are doing a very difficult job in an admirable manner, yet nobody on the left will give them that much credit. To these critics it's both impossible and already a failure.

So much for the myth that Americans accept tough challenges. If you ask me, this tiresome drone of doom and gloom ought to be directed at the failure of liberal programs over the past 65 years to deliver anything but debt and weakening of our national character.