Consequences? What Consequences?

Michael Barone is up to his usual standards with his latest column addressing the "lie" myth being pushed by the hysterical left. Along the way he summarizes the Middle East successes linked to Iraq.

Now, the progress toward democracy in Iraq is leading Middle Easterners to concentrate on the question of how to build decent governments and decent societies. We can see the results -- the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, the first seriously contested elections in Egypt, Libya's giving up WMDs, the Jordanian protests against Abu Musab Zarqawi's recent suicide attacks and even a bit of reform in Saudi Arabia. In Syria, The Washington Post's David Ignatius reports, "people talk politics here with a passion I haven't heard since the 1980s in Eastern Europe. They're writing manifestos, dreaming of new political parties, trying to rehabilitate old ones from the 1950s."

When the left pushes a cut and run strategy from Iraq, it fails to acknowledge not only potentially devestating losses in Iraq, but signs of progress in the region that could just as easily be wiped away.

And, while the media has been more than willing to advertise the left's deadly "plan" for Iraq, it has been nowhere on the possible consequences.

I wonder why?