Let’s play “who said it?”

Who do you think?

There will be more difficult days ahead. The insurgency in Afghanistan didn’t just happen overnight, and we won’t defeat it overnight. This will not be quick, nor easy. But we must never forget: This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity.

Those who attacked America on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. If left unchecked, the Taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven from which al Qaeda would plot to kill more Americans. So this is not only a war worth fighting. This is a — this is fundamental to the defense of our people.

Most of you will recognize this for the reverse-trick question that it is. See, the obvious answer is: a Republican, probably Dubya. But if the answer was obvious, I wouldn’t be asking. So it must be somebody counterintuitive. Somebody like…

Well, click here for the answer, if you really can’t guess.

I came across that via Boots and Sabers. The same article contains this fall-out-of-your-chair paragraph:

Now that the Republican’s national security strategy has succeeded in Iraq, freeing U.S. troops for deployment elsewhere, the Democrat is in the rather awkward position of likely arguing for the second troop surge of his own young administration.

In the L.A. Times, of all places.