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Yet again, Mark Steyn lays out our foreign policy situation clearly.

For the rest of the world, the Iraq war isn’t about Iraq; it’s about America, and American will. I’m told that deep in the bowels of the Pentagon there are strategists wargaming for the big showdown with China circa 2030/2040. Well, it’s steady work, I guess. But, as things stand, by the time China’s powerful enough to challenge the United States it won’t need to. Meanwhile, the guys who are challenging us right now — in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, North Korea and elsewhere — are regarded by the American electorate like a reality show we’re bored with. Sorry, we don’t want to stick around to see if we win; we’d rather vote ourselves off the island.

Iraq is lost not because America has been defeated, our economy is strong, and it isn’t because our military is under any serious duress. Iraq is lost because America got bored.

But hey, maybe we’ll get some good Green Day albums out of it.

Via Pajamas Media.

~ by spmat on November 12, 2006.