According to the overwhelming majority (84 percent) of top foreign policy experts surveyed by Foreign Policy magazine and the Center for American Progress, we are losing the war on terrorism.
Of course, the majority of US citizens realized this a long time ago--But given this overwhelming agreement of the policy "experts" with American citizens, the only question for the Democratic Party is: How much longer will Congressional Democrats continue to allow Republican rhetoric about "cutting and running" to cow them into a defensive strategy?
When will Congressional Democrats turn this deceptive Republican rhetoric around and put the emphasis where it should be: On the fact that the Republican Strategy is one of keeping American Soldiers in Iraq to "stay and bleed" while the Bush administration continues to act without any clear policy whatsoever for decreasing the violence in the Middle-East or successfully fighting its so-called "war on terror."
In case it's not clear yet, the Republicans have attacked Democratic criticisms of the Bush administration's war policy in Iraq as one of "cut and run" in order to distract attention from the complete inadequacy and failure of their foreign policy. Congressional Democrats have too often conceded the rhetorical victory to Republicans by not turning such attacks to Democratic advantage by flipping them around and noting how the Republican rhetoric of intimidation is meant only to disguise their failed policy, which is
a "STAY and BLEED" policy--
When will the Democrats go on the offensive and label the Republican strategy what it is: a "stay and bleed" strategy of doing nothing while soldiers continue to die for the completely failed and inadequate policy agenda of the Bush administration?!!
To repeat (in case it's not clear yet!): It's time the Democrats start to speak out more boldly and clearly about the "stay and bleed" policy of the Republican administration and their Congressional lackeys. Until they do, US soldiers will continue to die in an ill-concieved, deceptive, and profiteering war created by an administration without vision or concern for the real suffering of American or Iraqi families, or for the increasing levels of violence this failed policy has been producing throughout the Middle-East.