Why Cut and Run Won't Happen

Europundits finally published a post and he's afraid because Rumsfeld is gone.

The thing is, despite worrisome rhetoric from the Michael Moore-Cindy Sheehan-Huffington-Murtha Left, the people that actually have to govern and weigh consequences of policies will still have to look at Islamic Fundamentalism in the eye and make a decision. They know, like Bush knows, it would be shirking their duty to ignore this menace. There's no excuse, from a historical perspective, after 9/11 and the persistence these guys have shown in Iraq and elsewhere that we can count on them to collapse under their own stupidity.

This is a fight that cannot and will not be abandoned. If we take it in another direction, so be it, and I'll be with the rest of Americans, measuring the results.

Iraq cannot turn into a terrorist stronghold. No politician in the Congress would last, I think, by advocating abandoning it wholeheartedly.