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Via TPM... Sen. Biden (for once) gets it exactly right:

Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE): "It's not the American people or the U.S. Congress who are emboldening the enemy. It's the failed policy of this president going to war without a strategy, going to war prematurely."

Now rinse and repeat. The problem isn't the debate over the policy. The problem is the policy itself.

UPDATE: And on a related note, Andrew Sullivan asks "surge" supporters exactly the right question:

I find myself in email conversations with various readers, attempting to explain why I remain a skeptic about the ability of even the most gifted general to turn around an already far-gone sectarian civil war in Iraq. My pessimism is greeted by the argument that we have to plow on anyway - or give in to terrorists. But this begs a further question: which terrorists? The Shiites? Or the Sunnis? Al Qaeda or Iranian-backed death squads? The metric is no longer Iraq versus terror; it's Shia terror versus Sunni terror versus al Qaeda terror. In those circumstances, the most relevant question to ask anyone supporting Plus Up is simply: who do you want to win? Since we are engaged in a civil war, and since wars are designed to defeat one side, which side are we trying to defeat? The first question in wartime is: whose side are you on? The fact that no one can currently answer that question is the best reason to cut our losses.

Our national debate is still mired in a black or white, us or them mentality. But the world isn't black or white, and there aren't only two sides in this fight. This is not the Cold War. Why is that so hard for all of these "9/11 changed everything" people to understand?