Mark Steyn co-hosting on the Laura Ingrahm Show, (h/t Atlas) talking about Democrats and their political investment in a defeat. He points out that of those congressmen who have not been to Iraq, most are Democrats. And why bother, since defeatists in Congress are making their legislation based not on Iraq as it exists, but as they perceive it. Which is why you can have bills like H.R 2265, where we have to prepare for a massive genocide in Iraq, but only of those Iraqis who have served along side the West, and, once the US military leaves, you can have refugee processing centers across the state with a reasonable sense of security. The world they are legislating for simply does not exist.

Good news also in the battle against the Taliban, (H/T Neverdock):

“I don’t think the Taliban will come back,” said Abdul Rahman, 45, a paramedic, the only qualified person working in a small private clinic here. “They have been weakened.” Also the people would not support the Taliban anymore, he said.  What has made the difference here, the British say, is a shift in their tactics and a doubling of force numbers, to nearly 6,000 today, with more troops on the way. When the British paratroopers arrived in Helmand, President Hamid Karzai asked that they focus on preventing small district centers from falling to the Taliban, so grave was the insurgent threat. Surrounded and cut off, the British came under attack up to seven times a day. They used artillery fire to clear an area just for supply helicopters to land.  Over the winter they deployed mobile marine units to push the Taliban back from besieged district compounds and out of the town centers. In spring and summer, they staged sweeping operations, with help from American, Afghan and small Danish and Estonian units.

As Neverdock quipps: ”You won’t see this on the BBC.” Nor in the bills being introduced on the House and Senate floors.