I Know the Left Isn't Listening But...

"Iraq today is now the most important arena in which our Muslim nation is waging the battle against the forces of the Crusader-Zionist campaign. Therefore, backing the mujahidin in Iraq, led by the Islamic State of Iraq, is the most important task of the Islamic nation today.” -- Ayman al-Zawahiri, audio message, April 18, 2008

I myself haven't been listening to the Democrat debates. I'll just be glad when one of those gladiators bites the dust so we can finally take one of them seriously. For making our domestic life an order of magnitude more interesting, Obama is the obvious choice. For keeping the world safe for democracy, Clinton gets the nod. But I've not heard satisfactory answers from either of them on the posture of their Left supporters who pretended to support the war in Afghanistan.

So, from the horses mouth is where we are today. Iraq is AQ priority number one. US troops remain in Iraq at the urgent request of the Iraqi government. Iraq is our ally and, second to Israel, the strategically most important democracy in the Middle East, a weak state now, but a potentially strong one. Iran is doing its damnedest to undermine Iraq. How do you deal with all that?

I'm also rather interested to hear which people the Democrats consider their insiders with all the Arabic speaking skills... Are they thinking about re-populating the State Department?