Ted Rall: The Case For Defeatism

Why Harry Reid Was Right

NEW YORK--"I believe...that this war is lost," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Obviously he's right (and overdue). Amend that: he was right. Within 24 hours Democrats were backpedaling, stampeded by the usual onslaught of scorn and pseudo-patriotic outrage from Fox-fed GOP dead-enders.

"What Harry Reid is saying is that this war is lost...The war is not lost," Democratic Senator Charles Schumer clarified, less than brilliantly.