Awesome blogger Mario Loyola reemerges on the Corner to ask:
debates over progress reports on the surge are a smokescreen for what should be the real question: Is Congress prepared to force defeat on troops who think they can win, at the start of a strategic counter-offensive?
I can't quite figure out what he's implying. Does he think that the troops will deny their commanders and remain in Iraq even as the elected government of this country calls an end to the war? Will they become mercenaries and get their deployments funded by Halliburton? What's the implication here? And meanwhile, why should Congress care what the troops think? Last I checked, the military was under civilian control -- it's not supposed to be a perfectly autonomous institution that internally decides the trajectory of conflicts based on some sort of survey of its men in the field.
