Historic Turning Point

by digby

Pat Buchanan said something quite bracing on the McLaughlin Report this week-end:

What this tells you John is that we are coming out of Iraq. This is the first resolution and it’s non-binding, others are coming down the road. There will be no more surges into Iraq, the president has said we are not winning the war with the troops we have, we are coming out. So we had better prepare ourselves for the consequences, not of a defeat for American arms, but a defeat for American policy in Iraq, the potential loss of Iraq. And frankly John, the situation’s not looking all that good in Afghanistan either, where the NATO allies are not doing their bit. So we are at a historic turning point, I think, for the United States in the middle east.

We aren’t going to be leaving Iraq while George W. Bush is in the white house. But, I think he’s got the rest of it right. We certainly have a policy failure in Iraq. Big time.

Tony Blankley let the cat out of the bag, however, when he said that the US will be in Iraq for 20 years. When challenged about the difference between American combat troops on the ground an an American “presence” he (angrily)said this:

The fact is that when the oil is challenged in the Saudi oil fields and the Straights of Hormuz are closed, we’ll be fighting even by your definition.

Right. They aren’t even pretending anymore.

I think the great public intellectual and conservative philosopher Ann Coulter said it best:

“Liberals are always talking about why we shouldn’t go to war for oil. But why not go to war for oil? We need oil.

There you go.

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