Invested in Failure

In case you missed it, Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Independent Democrat from Connecticut, has an op-ed in the WSJ on our visible progress in Iraq and on Syria, "Al-Qaeda's Travel Agent":

Recently declassified American intelligence reveals just how much al Qaeda in Iraq is dependent for its survival on the support it receives from the broader, global al Qaeda network, and how most of that support flows into Iraq through one country--Syria. Al Qaeda in Iraq is sustained by a transnational network of facilitators and human smugglers, who replenish its supply of suicide bombers--approximately 60 to 80 Islamist extremists, recruited every month from across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, and sent to meet their al Qaeda handlers in Syria, from where they are taken to Iraq to blow themselves up to kill countless others.

They fly in in style to Damascus International, waved on to Iraq (or Lebanon, to buttress Hezbollah in their attacks on Lebanese sovereignty and on Israel). Sen. Lieberman:

When Congress reconvenes next month, we should set aside whatever differences divide us on Iraq and send a clear and unambiguous message to the Syrian regime, as we did last month to the Iranian regime, that the transit of al Qaeda suicide bombers through Syria on their way to Iraq is completely unacceptable, and it must stop. We in the U.S. government should also begin developing a range of options to consider taking against Damascus International, unless the Syrian government takes appropriate action, and soon.

No more Air France flights to Scenic Syria.

Thomas Sowell, RCP on the Democrats' "Investment in Failure", at home and abroad:

Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves "progressives." What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing.

One wonders what they would do in heaven.

Good thing a lot of them don't believe in it. No Pearly Gate reckoning for them.

Democrats believe perpetual failure is a good thing, it gives them a campaign issue. Democrats don't like to solve problems, they just like to criticize.

Democrats, fighting for you...lose. Sounds un-American to me.

UPDATE: Iran releases an Iranian-American Soros peacenik scholar from prison, though not yet from the country. Looks like our recent firm measures toward Iran have had some effect.