Michelle has a must-read post up looking back at the story that defined 2007--the surge:
For me, what happened in January defined the rest of the year. We rang in 2007 with vehement Democrat opposition to the "surge" in Baghdad. In the ensuing 12 months, Democrats tried and failed repeatedly to sabotage and undermine this military campaign. Their poisonously partisan allies at MoveOn attempted to smear Gen. David Petraeus. Their fellow travelers in the MSM fought tooth and nail to obscure the successes of the counterinsurgency tactics with their relentless "grim milestone" drumbeat. But by year's end, even anti-war Democrats and adversarial media outlets alike were forced to acknowledge that undeniable military progress and security improvements had been made.
She reminds readers of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's early opposition to the surge, which included this humdinger from Joe Biden: "...a surge in ground troops … is the wrong way to go, and I believe it will have the opposite--I repeat--opposite effect the president intends."
I'm shocked--I repeat--shocked that the Biden presidential campaign never got off the ground. Meanwhile, things are looking up for surge's most vocal supporter and rightly so.
As Michelle says, there's no doubt that the success of the surge has been the story of 2007, and it's worth taking the trip down memory lane just to see how misguided, and at times vile, the opposition to it was at the beginning of the year.
