The money quote:
Rather than running away from this record, how about running on it? How about trumpeting the military success of the missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and highlighting the need for inter-agency reform to offset the problems we have encountered in reconstruction?
The war was a military success, and everything that’s happened since has been “reconstruction”.
This is like saying that the Buffalo Bills won Super Bowl XXV because they led at halftime, and just ran into a few problems running out the clock.
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Or it’s like giving the Bills a SB victory because they got into four in a row.
Ack. I’m so sorry that I clicked on that link. My brain hurts now.