Lugar: “What he is basically saying is that the war is lost.”

Rich is, of course, right. But I’d like that to sink in for a second … it hasn’t with me yet.

Lugar, the great Republican Foreign Policy Doyen, is saying the United States of America has lost a war against rag-tag terrorist cells — including those of al Qaeda, which killed nearly 3000 Americans on one day and has said, repeatedly, that Iraq is the battle for all the marbles … the battle they were sure they would win because America runs away whenever the heat gets turned up high enough.

And, knowing that, he would have us to run away anyhow.

God help us.