FRANK WARNER ON THE SURGE: “One little-publicized finding of the new Pew poll is that, compared to last month, Americans now are slightly more optimistic about the Iraq war. The portion of Americans who believe the war is going ‘very well’ or ‘fairly well’ for the United States increased from the all-time low of 30 percent in February to 40 percent this month. . . . In the last month, the percent of Americans saying the war is going ‘not too well’ or ‘not well at all’ dropped from 67 to 56.”

That isn’t huge, but it’s significant. And this reversal as the surge gets underway suggests that much of the decline in support over the past year comes from people who’ve felt we weren’t prosecuting the war vigorously enough, as opposed to people who were simply against the whole enterprise.

UPDATE: Various readers argue that a ten-percent shift in one month is huge. Well, maybe. It would certainly be portrayed as huge if it had gone the other way. . . .

ANOTHER UPDATE: More on the “it’s huge” theme.