A ridiculous way to fight a war

Washington Post:

"As our leadership from the president on down to the leaders of Congress have said repeatedly, we're not there forever," said Sen. John W. Warner (R-Va.), who crafted the benchmark proposal with a group of moderate Republicans and Democrats. "We're there to help you so long as you, as a sovereign nation, pull your own weight and do your responsible job."

That is absolutely absurd. We're going to stay in Iraq so long as Iraq pulls its own weight? No, we are going to stay in Iraq so long as the war is winnable, and so long as the cost of winning, in lives and money and international prestige, is worth it. But this notion that we are going to stay in a war that may be lost (I would argue, is lost) simply because our partner is willing to stay as well is simply absurd, and downright criminal. This is the underlying problem with this entire debate. The media, and some Democrats, have bought the GOP party line that if we pull out of Iraq it will be a disaster. It's Terri Schiavo all over again. They're trying to revive the dead, while lecturing us about the horrible consequences of NOT bringing back the dead. Yes, death sucks. But once it's here, there isn't a hell of a lot you can do about it, and whining about how bad it is will not forestall the inevitable.