A remarkable New York Times editorial titled A War We Just Might Win is being reported by the media with unaccustomed gusto. This is made more remarkable by the fact that the writers are from the liberal Brookings Institute.

Usually, positive news from the war has been downplayed by the liberal media, invested in they are in Bush hatred and driven by liberal pussiness when it comes to laying down the law. These are the kind of people who tell their kids to report a bully to the teacher rather than teaching them to knock his lights out and get the problem over with.

This reversion to more positive reporting is not altruistic, however. The Dems are beginning to realize that the surge is probably working and that the country is filled with people who don’t want to lose, despite the pain involved.

As someone who believes that a strong statement had to be made to people in a culture where a non-response is interpreted as weakness, and who thinks that because terrorism/jihadism crosses borders and by nature cannot be defined by any particular country, but also realizing that post-war plans were bungled by a combination of events the administration should have known about and some they couldn’t have anticipated, we now find ourselves in the position of having to stay to prevent the chaos that would occur should we leave.

Morally, we MUST remain until it is safe for as many people there as can be protected.

I find a parallel in the lousy enforcement of previous illegal immigration policies.

Because it was in the interests of corporations, farmers, householders and other employers who benefitted from illegal labor, there was a wink-wink, nudge-nudge attitude towards the problem of protecting the borders and enforcing the laws already in place.

Until the immigration problem recently reached critical mass by the Democrat’s attempt to pass a rotten immigration bill that would tilt more votes to their side of the aisle.

Because of the government’s (and our) years of laxity in enforcing firm, coherent policies about illegal workers, the overwhelming immigration mess was allowed to happen.

Morally, we MUST do something about our borders and workers, about families trapped here and there, i.e., illegals who’ve had children here but with family back there, and other painfully convoluted family situations caused by our deliberate, top-to-bottom inattention.

In both issues it’s a case of a bed having been made and we must sleep in it. We may not like the bed, or how it’s been made, but we have to sleep there nevertheless.