By Andrew L. Jaffee

It’s bizarre. We hear all this belly-aching about how awful it was to dump Afghanistan after the Soviets were evicted. And it was awful to leave Afghanistan in the hands of the Mujahideen.

But now we hear that we should abandon Iraq “immediately.” The result would be the same as abandoning Afghanistan: the vacuum would be filled by Islamist terrorists.

al-Qaeda’s home was Afghanistan, as guests of the Taliban. Why do people think al-Qaeda is trying so hard to destabilize Iraq?

DOH! This current failure-in-Iraq-at-all-costs thinking by “progressives” is just plain nonsensical. To think that they would have the U.S. abandon a nascent democracy — just because of sour grapes over President Bush — is really petty.

Even Obama has soft-peddled his immediate withdrawal promise.

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Related: Iraq, Political Correctness, Afghanistan, Philosophy / Ideology

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