AT LEAST LIMITED GOOD NEWS – AT 7:27 P.M. ET:  Maybe the anti-war "movement" in the House of Representatives isn't as strong as we'd thought it was.  From The Politico:

In a first election-year test of President Barack Obama’s military buildup in Afghanistan, the House soundly rejected a war powers resolution seeking to force the withdrawal of American forces no later than Dec. 31.

The lopsided 356-65 win gives new momentum to the White House going into what promises to be a more difficult battle next month over new war funding.

For the moment at least, the old antiwar left of past Iraq debates appears fractured over how much time to give the president to implement his strategy.

COMMENT:  What must be exposed is the sheer hypocrisy of many of the "anti-war" activists in the Democratic Party.  They'd said they were against the war in Iraq, and blamed BUSH (!!) and Cheney (!!!!) for conniving to get us into it.

But, in fact, these people are against any war the United States is involved in, something obvious from the vote today.  This was about Afghanistan.  We'd been assured that Afghanistan was the "good" war.  But these "anti-war" politicians don't believe any American war is a good war, unless the ideological left gives its approval.

Remember that the left was opposed to our entry into World War II until Germany invaded the old Soviet Union.  Then the ideologues did a 180, condemned Hitler, and approved the war effort...until Japan surrendered in 1945, whereupon they went right back to their old propaganda and opposed our resistance to to Soviet expansionism.

March 10, 2010