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[quote]BAGHDAD, Aug. 14 — Rising up against insurgent leader Abu Musab Zarqawi, Iraqi Sunni Muslims in Ramadi fought with grenade launchers and automatic weapons Saturday to defend their Shiite neighbors against a bid to drive them from the western city, Sunni leaders and Shiite residents said. Dozens of Sunni members of the Dulaimi tribe established cordons around Shiite homes, and Sunni men battled followers of Zarqawi, a Jordanian, for an hour Saturday morning. The clashes killed five of Zarqawi’s guerrillas and two tribal fighters, residents and hospital workers said. Zarqawi loyalists pulled out of two contested neighborhoods in pickup trucks[/quote]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/13/AR2005081301209.html

In any event, I think that outcome is not as likely as you think.

Remember the pre-election handwringing(postpone it, there will be massive violence, it’ll never be pulled off) and then the claims the Constitution could never be agreed upon? And yet the Iraqis seem to have pulled off both.

It is correct that the anti-war left feeds the perception in the Middle east of a war entered into by a lie. I am sure that the Middle east would feel that way regardless of what the left says.
But I am equally sure that the left feeds the insurgency’s will to fight and kill our soldiers just as much.

During Vietnam, the North Vietnamese indirectly funded several anti-war groups and events believing that they could win politically if they held out long enough. They were correct. They saw the anti-war machine taking its toll and was able to hold on, strenghened by the news from the home front of their enemy, for the eventual victory.

The “insurgents” (our islamofacist enemy)and their unwitting accomplises on the left have learned well from history.
Just as during Vietnam, the left (I was one of them then) is defeating us here at home.

But this time the war in Iraq is a battle in a larger war and this time the consequenses of losing that battle are much more serious to our way of life than was the fall of Vietnam. We are not isolated from those consequenses.

The left sees this myopically, focused on only Iraq. They refuse to see Iraq in the light of the whole picture of what is going on around us, worldwide. As long as the left wins in this battle, the U.S.and western civilization looses.