This is why the Democrats can't win.

As we're coming up on the November election, I think this quote from the Times sums up nicely why the Democrats won't win the election.

“The reason that Democrats aren’t talking about specific plans to end the war is because it’s hard to figure out what to say without alienating a broad swath of the electorate.”

So they are only going to offer a plan to end the war if their political calculations show that it will help them in the polls. Offering a plan to end the war simply for the sake of ending the war would be asking too much.

At least the Republicans will tell what they're trying to accomplish in Iraq, even if it isn't working.