While Max Boot blathers on and on in today’s LA Times about how insurgencies cannot defeat democracies (two words: South Vietnam), elsewhere in that same newspaper, someone closer to power in Mordor-on-the-Potomac is actually speaking the truth: And although the Democratic and Republican officials uneasy about the war are criticizing Bush more sharply, most have been reluctant to propose significant shifts in his policies, like setting a date to withdraw U.S. troops. Biden, for instance, condemned that idea this week. “This is like 1968 or 1969, when the political elite has concluded this is, in fact, an unwinnable war but … Continue reading Handwriting on the Wall