Just watched Steny Hoyer get interviewed on Fox. He wants to assure everyone that Democrats strongly support the war on terror … but feel that the war is really in Afghanistan, not so much in Iraq.

Really? Osama bin Laden says Iraq is, for al Qaeda, the central front in the war. Ayman Zawahiri says he wishes we’d send more than 20,000 more troops because al Qaeda is in Iraq and would like to kill more Americans there. A big part of why Iraq is so difficult is that al Qaeda has contributed mightily to the chaos and killing. (Who did more to foment the sectarian infighting than the late Abu Musab Zarqawi, head of al Qaeda in Iraq?)

I’m not saying that Afghanistan is unimportant. But the enemy is massed in Iraq and is braying that it thinks defeating us in Iraq is its top objective.Under those circumstances, how do you conceivably say the war we need to win isn’t really in Iraq?