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WaPo - On Iraq, a State of Denial. By Charles Krauthammer

Al-Qaeda in Iraq is in disarray, the Sunni insurgency in decline, the Shiite militias quiescent, the capital city reviving. Are we now to reverse course and abandon all this because parliament cannot ratify the reconciliation already occurring on the ground?

But if the politicians haven’t done it, it must not exist!

(And isn’t this indicative of just about everything that goes on where politicians are involved? The only way they can square with themselves that this blog exists is because they’re telling themselves that Al Gore invented the internet. Gun crime in DC is a moot point because they’ve banned guns there, and then there was this from the Best of the Web yesterday:

International legal institutions too often end up protecting those who violate the law flagrantly at the expense of governments that are trying to do their duty to protect their own civilian populations. Is international humanitarian law an experiment that has failed?

Etc, etc, etc.)