I wonder if this is bear-baiting the liberals or just wishful thinking. It could be true. So could almost anything. All wars peter out. Even Phyrric victories like this one, a victory so costly as to be devasting to the victor.

Let's all hope the optimism is well founded. Let us never forget that the administration put an insufficient amount of troops on the ground in the first place. Shinseki warned them; they ignored him. Hitchens musn't see a demand for accountability as something dark and sinister.