NYT highlights viewpoints of two prominent liberals' opinions on how we 'might' succeed in Iraq

Desperate for cover from the accusations that they are a full blown cut and run newspaper, the NYT published today an opinion piece from two liberals:

Michael E. O’Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Kenneth M. Pollack is the director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings.

… both of whom supported removing Saddam Hussein from power, and who just got back from an 8 day visit in Iraq, and who believe we can win.

Tigerhawk has a good analysis of the piece here. In essence, he opines that these guys are a lot more credible than the anti-war left will give them credit for and predicts that they have seriously damaged their credibility with an anti-war base that sees any hope and/or optimism for winning in Iraq as a big no-no – basically tantamount to treason.

Joe Klein, by no means a fan of the administration nor the Iraq war, but all the same knows what the consequences of failure will be, comments on the piece here.

Wow – in one day, three prominent lefties are agreeing that the Iraq war is worth winning and winnable. The far left’s collective head must be spinning around on its neck a la Linda Blair in The Exorcist.

Dana says:

July 30, 2007 at 9:28 am

Dear Sis: Two things:

1- You’ve got an opeh link tag to fix in the main body.

2- You are attempting to use logic when it comes to the rabid anti-war left. If there were only 100 bad guys in Iraq who hated us, they were all in one compound, and we had the compound surrounded, the kook left would still be screaming, “Bush lied, people died,” and that we had to get out of Iraq now!

Sister Toldjah says:

July 30, 2007 at 9:32 am

Thanks Dana – it’s fixed now.

G-Monster says:

July 30, 2007 at 12:18 pm

If you read the whole article in the link below, I would say it pretty well defines the goals to defeat aq. It makes alot of sense to me anyhow.

LINK

Don Singleton says:

July 30, 2007 at 1:32 pm

A War We Just Might Win

If that is what it looks like to two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration, just think what it looks like to a really objective reporter.

The Right Nation says:

July 31, 2007 at 10:18 am

Mission Accomplished

Il mondo ornato ad essere un posto normale. Ricordate, qualche settimana fa, l’editoriale del New York Times (la password per leggerlo cercatela qui) che invocava il ritiro statunitense dall’Iraq? Il giorno dopo, giornali e telegiornali italiani a…