“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid must go. He has crossed a rhetorical line that must not be crossed in public discourse. He has gone beyond sensible discussion among elected officials about strategy and tactics and into an area in which his judgment as a leader is now in doubt. One simply cannot hold a position of authority in the federal government and declare that soldiers in the field are fighting a battle that is already lost. If he believes this really is true–and I don’t believe he does–he has done double harm: First, he is betraying his duty as a leader by failing to unequivocally call for immediate–as in “this instant,” and not next year–withdrawal. Second, he has shown that he lacks the intellectual discretion to guard his words with respect to the impression he gives to our soldiers and the rest of the world.
Let’s talk plainly: Senator Reid put politics in front of the best interests of the nation. It shouldn’t be a mortal wound, but we are living in kill-or-be-killed political times. If Reid and his party want to live by the rhetorical sword they swing so carelessly at George Bush and the majority who elected him, Reid should go down by that same awful and unfair sword. “
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