Kagan and Kristol

Here’s their view:

So let’s add up the "realist" proposals: We must retreat from Iraq, and thus abandon all those Iraqis – Shiite, Sunni, Kurd, and others – who have depended on the United States for safety and the promise of a better future. We must abandon our allies in Lebanon and the very idea of an independent Lebanon in order to win Syria’s support for our retreat from Iraq. We must abandon our opposition to Iran’s nuclear program in order to convince Iran to help us abandon Iraq. And we must pressure our ally, Israel, to accommodate a violent Hamas in order to gain radical Arab support for our retreat from Iraq.

A little melodramatic but: Yep. That’s what Kagan’s and Kristol’s beloved administration has brought us to. And by supporting it so ferociously for so long, it is what Kagan and Kristol have also helped bring us to. Do they have any serious alternative? More troops. And if Bush won’t send or the US cannot find or America will not support more troops? What will K&K say then?

Here’s what they will never say: that they bear serious responsibility for this foreign policy catastrophe. In the world of the Bushies, it is always, always, always someone else’s fault.