Lamont or Lieberman?

[Bigdaddydvo]

This was a sad day in a once great party. Whatever was left of the Truman/JFK Democratic tradition of being strong on national defense/security issues has been vanquished by the Dean/Soros/Daily Koz wing of the Party. The Democratic Party is no longer a national party that tolerates dissent or honest intellectual debate; last night's election makes it clear that it is no longer a "big tent" Party.

Whether invading Iraq was a mistake or not remains unclear (I was there in 2003 and dodged my fair share of IEDs). What is perfectly clear is that executing Lamont's plan of immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, regardless of the political and security situation on the ground, is disasterous. If Lamont has his way, we will leave a failed state, extremely vulnerable to Iranian influence, that will forment terrorists the same way Afghanistan did during the 1990's. Having Troops in Iraq may suck, but the latter option sucks much, much worse.