July 23rd, 2008

Mission Accomplished, Says Peter Ferrara in National Review Online

Posted in  Politics 
Author: Erin Humiston || Location: Lewisville, Texas, USA

In a new op/ed published this week in National Review Online, IPI’s Peter Ferrara says the war in Iraq is over, and it’s too late for Barack Obama to surrender.

An excerpt:

"Barack Obama continues his overseas trip today in the Middle East, where the facts on the ground have recently been moving so fast hardly anyone in the U.S. has really kept up. But unheralded press reports in recent weeks establish this new reality.

The war in Iraq is over. America and her allies won. Sorry, Barack, but it is too late for you and your misguided, uninformed, anti-American netroots to surrender.

The surge that Obama opposed and said would fail has succeeded spectacularly. McCain was right about that from the beginning.

General Petraeus, leading American and Iraqi troops, has smashed al-Qaeda, which has now basically withdrawn and fled to remote hideouts in lawless, ungoverned, western Pakistan. The Sunni Awakening is now over a year old and has been widely reported. The Shia majority government of elected Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has moved brilliantly in recent months to rout the Shia militias as well, creating a broad, popular base of support for him. The Kurds continue to prosper in peace and harmony.”

To read the full article, please visit National Review Online.