By Diana West
Since mum really is the word, I picked up on only one pro-war conservative rejoinder to Brokaw’s recent comments. Writing online at Contentions, former Bush White House official Peter Wehner offered his explanation for radio silence on war in this election: “The fact that it (Iraq) has dropped off the radar screen is an indication of the very progress Brokaw himself cannot seem to acknowledge.”
Really? “Progress”? In a week when Iraq’s Nuri al-Maliki was in Tehran seeking Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s favor and alliance with Moqtada al-Sadr while NATO forces were simultaneously themselves ferrying senior Taliban leaders to “peace talks ” in Kabul with Afghanistan’s Karzai, to invoke “progress” is to dodge failure. Maybe it’s no wonder Americans look the other way. Maybe it’s no wonder we don’t see — or see only what we wish to see: nascent democratic bulwarks against jihad, not Sharia-supreme basket cases increasingly dominated by our openly jihadist enemies.
And that’s nothing to stay silent about and ignore.
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