Defeatocrats

I noted the other day that Democrats are again trying to retreat; one means to this ignoble end is a "readiness" measure that wouldn't permit troops to return to combat until they'd spent an equal time in the US (so six months in Iraq, followed by six in the US). The Standard takes a look at it, listing Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) among its proponents. The other day I mentioned that one flaw in our Vietnam operations was the definite time line for any troops to be in theater (a year). Webb's a veteran of that conflict, yet refuses to acknowledge how these kinds of strictures destroys the effectiveness of our troops. If troops in Vietnam had had a vested interest in ending the conflict, not getting out in a year, then perhaps things would have been different.