VI Day

Zombie started it, and it's a good idea: declare victory in Iraq. Certainly the vastly improved conditions there warrant it. And the main-stream media seems unmotivated to remark upon it. So yes, let's declare the victory, and of course, say thank you to those who have sacrificed so much to bring it about.

Call me cynical, but I don't expect the media to be interested until the new wonderful leader of the free world (ah, a phrase that will no doubt be redundant soon) takes office. Give Obama a week and the headlines will start "It Took Him Just Seven Days," "Obama Ends the War That the Fascists Entangled Us In."

He will have input. He will get the chance to screw it up; but hopefully he won't. Would it be tempting fate to suggest that even Jimmy Carter could bring it home from here?

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