Iraqi Police Stand Up for Their Country.

For all the lamentations coming from the left and some on the right about the lost cause that is Iraq, they all claim one thing, that the Iraqis are incapable of defending their own country and standing up their own forces. I'm guessing that this partol of Iraqi National Police would like to differ with them since they recently defeated an Al Qaeda attack on their checkpoint:

BAGHDAD — Iraqi Security Forces foiled a late night attack by alleged Al Qaeda members on a checkpoint in the western Rashid District July 2.

Iraqi National Police officers were attacked just after midnight by four armed men. The policemen returned fire, killing one of the insurgents and forcing two others to flee the scene.

The fourth attacker was detained by police officers when his suicide explosive vest failed to detonate.

If bloggers like Rick Moran would stop claiming defeat for Iraq since its not evolving as quickly as he would hope for, or because victory is too hard to achieve more stories like this might be reaching the public airwaves instead of being buried in the multitude of press releases.

Moran's latest complaint is that the Iraqi government is failing at holding up its end of the bargain, and yet his list of Iraqi failures reads more like a list of American Congressional Failures. To hold Iraq to some higher standard of democratic evolution is to ignore the decades it had taken the United States to evolve into a federal style government. As long as small groups of troopers are willing to stand up for their country then Iraq is not a failure, the failure is on your part in not being patient, and understanding that democracy is a fragile thing that must be incubated and coaxed into "adulthood" all the while outside forces are working against its success.

Those outside forces don't need your assistance in pining for its failure, on the contrary, Iraqis need your understanding and support, just like our founding father's needed the understanding and support of other nations. One would think that a blogger as well known and as well read as Moran would have realized this on our country's birthday.