The Democrats’ position on Iraq leads me to wonder why they aren’t making the same argument on Afghanistan. For if they regard Iraq as such an utterly hopeless case, what possible cause for optimism can they advance regarding Afghanistan? I very much suspect, in fact, that having abandoned Iraq, an Obama or Clinton Administration would soon find pretexts for the abandonment of Afghanistan. If there’s one thing we can say for sure about the Democratic presidential hopefuls, it’s that neither of them has the stomach for a fight with Islamofascism.