The new Congress is bad for national security

It is hard to understand how most of the directors in the Intelligence Community (IC), including John Negroponte, sat before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence today, testified that both immediate withdrawal and failure to secure Iraq will lead to a regional conflagration with international consequences, and members of Congress still oppose the President's current Iraq policy. They don't just oppose the policy but openly disdain it without presenting alternatives besides withdrawal. The IC believes we cannot afford to give up in Iraq. Others, like Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor for Pres. Carter's administration, think that if we must stay in Iraq to prevent its downfall, we will never be able to withdraw. He overlooks Pres. Bush's having said that success depends on Iraqis; consequently, if Iraqis fully embrace thier roles, the U.S. can withdraw without precipitating the worst. If nothing else, Congress has shown its willingness to act against the American Public Interest concerning Iraq, the way the Bush Administration once did, despite all the intelligence pointing to their faulty thinking.