Ralph Peters asks how you can lose a war. He has the answer.

QUIT. It's that simple. There are plenty of more complex ways to lose a war, but none as reliable as just giving up.
Increasingly, quitting looks like the new American Way of War. No matter how great your team, you can't win the game if you walk off the field at half-time. That's precisely what the Democratic Party wants America to do in Iraq. Forget the fact that we've made remarkable progress under daunting conditions: The Dems are looking to throw the game just to embarrass the Bush administration.

Forget about the consequences. Disregard the immediate encouragement to the terrorists and insurgents to keep killing every American soldier they can. Ignore what would happen in Iraq — and the region — if we bail out. And don't mention how a U.S. surrender would turn al Qaeda into an Islamic superpower, the champ who knocked out Uncle Sam in the third round.

Read the rest. Peters is a retired military officer and he's quite angry.

You know, I think it may be impossible for a democracy to wage war in the modern age of communication. Since I teach a class on the Revolution and the Civil War, I keep thinking about how those wars would have played on 24-hour cable news. They would have been over after the first battle. Lincoln would have been impeached. Washington would have been removed from command after the Battle of Brooklyn when it was disclosed that the Americans hadn't guarded the Jamaica Pass.

Since groups, like the terrorists in Iraq, cannot hope to win a regular pitched battle against our army, they have discovered that it may be even more productive to fight the battle out in public opinion. And there, we are most vulnerable. That is our unguarded Jamaica Pass.