Webb Revisited

Jonah Goldberg also takes Sen. Webb to task at Townhall. Some of Webb's words on Iraq are below.

""As I look at Iraq, I recall the words of former general and soon-to-be-President Dwight Eisenhower during the dark days of the Korean War, which had fallen into a bloody stalemate. 'When comes the end?' ... And as soon as he became president, he brought the Korean War to an end." This was part of freshman Virginia Sen. Jim Webb's much ballyhooed stentorian Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address. "

Except that we still have troops in S. Korea sixty years later, the war hasn't ended - there is merely a cease-fire (and a tenous one at that, border violations and pot shots take place pretty commonly) in place. Of course, the fact that the entire nation of N. Korea is a stalinist prison camp isn't worth mentioning either, not that an estimated million people died due to famine in the country over the last decade or two while the leadership parties on caviar and champaigne.

Goldburg retorts:
"So, except for the fact that the Korean War didn't end, our troops are still there, and the outcome has been the source of humanitarian and national security nightmares, Webb's salute to Eisenhower's statesmanship really strikes home."

Ouch, that should leave a verbal mark. And Webb is supposed to be a new breed of responsible Democrat?