Hope for Iraq?
The Bush Administration has long argued that all was going swimmingly in Iraq, even when the evidence overwhelmingly suggested otherwise, thereby squandering whatever credibility it had on the matter. But when someone outside the administration -- in this case, two scholars from the liberal Brookings Institution who have just returned from Iraq -- say that the situation has taken a turn for the better, it gives some cause for hope:
Viewed from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington is surreal....Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: We are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms. As two analysts who have harshly criticized the Bush administration’s miserable handling of Iraq, we were surprised by the gains we saw and the potential to produce not necessarily “victory” but a sustainable stability that both we and the Iraqis could live with.
Let's hope and pray they're right.
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