Democrats use strategy of ambiguity on Iraq: experts

... that being the party that stands for absolutely nothing is considered an effective campaign strategy.

party should be running on ideas and selling those ideas to the public, not watching polls and adjusting our policies and campaigns on the poll results.

the obsessive-compulsive game of Having Great Ideas About Everything was extremely annoying, especially because the Great Ideas thrown about never are great. I'm personally tired of Great Idea Democrats who are whining about how useless they really are- the rest of us realized this a long time ago. Making Big Plans and trying forever to claim and live on the moral high ground is a characteristic of a defensive permanent minority.

The true reason we're not withdrawing comes down to collective vanity/ego. Letting death to the endeavor happen by (sadly) ten thousand cuts (or, American and Iraqi corpses)...if Stupid Joe Republican won't let go of Iraq because his precious ego would be hurt, Iraq has to slip out of American grasp the ugly and painful way. Consider Iraq a rabid dog the average Republican voter is holding and refuses to let go, afraid of being bitten after letting go, while being gouged and clawed and getting skin bites from anyway.

The American People simply wants every last rationale and excuse it has ground up and disproven in Iraq. This is the last colonial war the country will probably wage, and the lessons taken from it have to be comprehensive and final and beyond dispute for this to be the case. There is no need for a Big Plan- there's only a need for patience and a willingness by Democrats to do what Republicans cannot, i.e. defund the travesty when the moderate Republicans give up on Iraq as a bloc. Which moderate Republicans will do when the al-Maliki government is toppled or destroyed, which will in turn happen once the Maliki government fulfills its Iraqi raison d'etre and executes Saddam Hussein.

little evidence of that in the article.