Herewith links to a couple of essays in The National Review:
Victor Davis Hanson reminds us that the doomsayers who proclaim defeat in Iraq today are the same ones who predicted quagmire in the Hindu Kush and Stalingrad on the Tigris. And an extra bonus snark to the Sunnis calling for postponement because of instability in Sunni areas; if you can’t set your own house in order, you don’t deserve to vote.
Mark Steyn mocks the post-election Liberal flirtation with religion (subscription required):
Prominent Democrats seem to have great difficulty getting even the well-known bits right. Christmas, according to Hillary Rodham Clinton in 1999, is when those in that particular faith tradition celebrate “the birth of a homeless child.” Or, as Al Gore put it in 1997, “Two thousand years ago, a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child.” For Pete’s sake, they weren’t homeless — they couldn’t get a hotel room. They had to sleep in the stable only because Dad had to schlep halfway across the country to pay his taxes in the town of his birth, which sounds like the kind of cockamamie bureaucratic nightmare only a blue state could cook up. Except that in Massachusetts, it’s no doubt illegal to rent out your stable without applying for a Livestock Shelter Change of Use Permit plus a Temporary Maternity Ward for Non-Insured Transients License, so Mary would have been giving birth under a bridge on I-95.