From last night’s Special Report with Brit Hume:

—On the Coming Fight on Iraq—

HUME: Is the war so unpopular now that it does not matter what the arguments are for continuing? . . .
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: I think it matters. . . . If you can make the case, maybe the president can’t ever speak to the American people again on this, but I think Petraeus can. And when he comes back in September, if he makes the case that, A, we are succeeding against al Qaeda and we have had remarkable developments in Anbar, a province which had been declared lost to al Qaeda, just half a year ago, completely lost. We now see the Sunnis in Anbar rebelling against al Qaeda and taking up arms against them. And that’s remarkable. If he returns and says we’re making progress and if we leave al Qaeda wins Iraq, that will make the case.

—On the Immigration Rallies—

KONDRACKE: [T]he National Immigration Solidarity Network, which sponsored this May Day demonstration, is a far left group. And the fact that that the pro-immigration forces are divided at the moment and this group wanted absolute amnesty, wants no border enforcement, wants to tear down the wall, wants no employer sanctions, wants no guest-worker program. That’s not what the main line pro immigration groups are advocating in Washington. . . .
KRAUTHAMMER: Look, last year in L.A. there was a demonstration of 650,000. Today it was 10,000. Part of it is because illegals are worried about, there’s been an increase in enforcement and raids and deportations.
But another reason is that last year’s demonstrations backfired politically. The first demonstrations people showed up waving Mexican flags. That’s not going to endear you to Americans. . . . As a result, what I think happened is there was a hardening of positions after these demonstrations.
And you get today’s demonstrations demanding not just that people who have been here for 20 years be accepted, but no deportation, no enforcement, open borders. And it’s preposterous.
Look, there are people like me who are sympathetic to the illegals already here and would like to see them ultimately legalized. But only if you stop the border crossings today. . . . You have to have enforcement first. And unless you have that, you will never have a consensus in the country.