Via Fred Barnes, the first good news on Iraq in months. In short:
1. Iraq Study Group report (aka "Surrender with Dignity") goes into the trash. Good.
2. 50,000 more troops, mostly in Baghdad. Good.
3. The city is taken, neighborhood by neighborhood, house by house. Good, if true.
The joke around the blogosphere this week was that if James Baker headed a commission to save Social Security, his first recommendation would be that Israel relinquish the Golan Heights and enter into negotiations for the partition of Jerusalem. The point is that words do not describe what a farce the ISG turned out to be, and how removed from reality their recommendations were.
It was a Democrat--Missouri's Ike Skelton--who first pointed out the crucial nature of Baghdad in the overall War on Terror. Baghdad is this generation's Marathon, its Saratoga, its Waterloo, its Gettysburg, its Midway. This is the tipping point of history.
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