A portion of an email from another reader:

One of the ironies of the war in Iraq is that the left has made war with Iran more likely by discrediting the victory in Iraq. They have been trying to discredit that victory since Baghdad was taken, and they have given hope to the insurgents who are relying on them for a victory they know they cannot achieve in the battle space in Iraq. This has led the Iranian regime to think that the US lacks the will to take them on so they are more aggressively pushing their nuke program. If the left had accepted the victory and supported the liberation of Iraq and made clear it supported the liberation of Iran our enemies would be either more compliant or more desperate.