Special Report
Standing Firm on the Surge
As the Iraq debate intensifies in Washington, an AEI panel assesses the level of progress in Iraq.
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In introducing the panel, AEI's Danielle Pletka lamented the fact that America could be facing the possibility of "victory abroad, defeat at home."
That is one of the arguments that Miller offered in favor of his policy -- that it would avoid a scenario under which a 2008 presidential candidate wins on a platform of getting out of Iraq.
Kagan, meanwhile, said he feared that the lack of political will would prevent the surge strategy from being given a chance to work, and expressed disappointment in those lawmakers whose support for the war effort was waning. "I've always thought, naive guy that I am, that the role of political leaders is to lead, and not simply to slavishly follow whatever public opinion polls there are going to be on a given subject."
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Philip Klein is The American Spectator's Washington correspondent. You can follow him on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/Philipaklein
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