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"Recent polling data suggests that self-described liberals are far more interested in ending the Iraq war than in pursuing al-Qaida, and that a large proportion of Democrats now oppose not merely the Iraq conflict but also the earlier invasion of Afghanistan. Many American liberals, he concludes, 'no longer see the war on terror as their fight.'"
Considering how the Iraq war has played into al-Qaida's hands, ending it might do as much to undermine them as Washington's inadequate pursuit has. And maybe the new liberal opposition to the Afghanistan invasion comes from the bitter realization that this operation was the intentional thin end of the disastrous Iraq invasion. If liberals no longer see the War on Terror as their fight, that's because they see how counterproductive it's been.
