Ouch. Rather Scorching Editorial about Iraq and the Democrats

I will admit that I generally pass over the editorials in Nuvo. Since Harrison Ullman's passing they have been lacking but today I did take a look. Wow. A perspective on Democrat policy that I had not thought of and one that does cut. I am impressed.

The title is Democrats fiddle, Iraq burns and here is a bit:

One thing that’s hard for a bully to do is admit he’s in the wrong. While Democrats have found it easy to blame Bush for his blunders in Iraq, they have been content to keep their focus on tactics. The moral question of how we came to give ourselves permission to go there in the first place has been swept under the rug.

The same holds true for how we intend to behave once the acute pain of seeing our troops killed and maimed on a daily basis is relieved. While Democrats speak of withdrawal, one rarely, if ever, hears about what’s to be done with the symbols of imperial power we have already imposed on Iraq’s landscape. The Defense Department has built at least 10 major air and Army bases in Iraq that it calls “enduring.” Some of these bases are the size of small towns. And then there is the embassy we have built in Baghdad. Its budget in fiscal 2006 was $923 million — 20 times that of our embassy in Beijing. Civilians living in Baghdad may not have running water or regular electricity, but the U.S. embassy has, among other amenities, its own espresso bar.