Abu Wabu

Wherein the General wins hands down his confrontation with hostile Democrats, because he has both personal honor and reality on his side. And the reality is, al Qaeda is losing. To the tune of 1,500 new dead assholes a month. Turns out they're crazy murderous psychopaths who have difficulty socializing, so the locals tell the Americans where to find them and kill them.

Go figure.

Having poisoned one country and been expelled from it (Afghanistan), al Qaeda seized upon post-Saddam instability to establish itself in the very heart of the Arab Middle East — Sunni Iraq. Yet now, in front of all the world, Iraq’s Sunnis are, to use the biblical phrase, vomiting out al Qaeda. This is a defeat and humiliation in the extreme — an Arab Muslim population rejecting al Qaeda so violently that it allies itself in battle with the infidel, the foreigner, the occupier.

Man, that is delicious.

So is Rich Lowry's analysis of the Democrats' disastrous Patreus-hearings tactics:

Democrats were wrong-footed. Their all-or-nothing opposition to the war made it impossible for them to digest any good news, so they resorted to ham-handed attacks on the general’s credibility. Even the usually shrewd Rep. Rahm Emanuel — architect of the Democratic takeover of the House — blustered, “We don’t need a report that wins the Nobel Prize for creative statistics or the Pulitzer for fiction.”

Oh, yeah: Hillary surrendered the White House when she accused General David Patreus of lying to the congressional committee hearing his testimony. All the Democratic leadership, who ever warn us against questioning their patriotism, were impugning General Patreus' character and veracity in advance of his testimony. Plus they weaseled on the NYT MooooVon ad insulting the troops and their commander.

So pre-emptive attack is cool again?

Alright.