Winning The Iran-In-Iraq War

[Heading: both sides of their mouths...]

The surge strategy produced an astonishing turnaround in Iraq. Now the challenge is defeating Iranian-backed Shiite militias trying to undo that progress. Naturally, Democrats recommend surrender.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has been blasted by congressional Democrats for years now for supposedly being nothing more than a divisive, ineffective sectarian, unwilling to use his government's muscle against militants if they were his fellow Shiites.

But now that Maliki is — without the guidance and direction of U.S. forces — waging a campaign against Shia militias in southern Iraq, what thanks do he and the Baghdad government get from those same Democrats?

They use it to repeat their familiar refrain that Iraq is in a hopeless civil war, therefore the U.S. should cut and run...

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