So Pathetically Obvious

I sense a trend here. The other day I published a quote from one of Kristol's recent columns about how W has given Obama the gift of victory in Iraq, or some such smelly pile of bullshit. Kristol runs the Weekly Standard, that unconscionable righty hack rag. And now, Goldfarb, also at the Standard, is piling on.

Obama has inherited victory in Iraq. Bush has done more than, as McGurn
quotes Biden in early 2007, "keep it from totally collapsing...[until he could]
hand it off to the next guy." Now rather than retreat in defeat, our new
president must manage to withdraw American troops without undermining their
success. It will be a tremendous challenge, but the press will not be able to
blame Bush if security deteriorates in Iraq after Obama gives the Joint Chiefs
their "new mission." The victory in Iraq is Obama's to lose.

Pre-emptive revisionism. That, and plain old bullshitting. And the amazing thing is how obvious it all is. Pathetic.