The Lemming Strategy

I did a Current in which I briefly wonder why it is Republican members of congress seem to have convinced themselves that the alleged success of the surge is a great campaign issue for them. All the data I can find indicates that the war continues to be extremely unpopular, with only a third or fewer of the public wanting some kind of open-ended commitment to seeing the job through.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/04/the-lemming-strategy/44278/