GOOD NEWS FROM IRAQ THAT NOBODY SEEMS TO CARE ABOUT: “What remains worrisome is the reaction of leading Democrats. Two years ago they were arguing that we should leave Iraq because the war was lost; now they are saying we should leave Iraq because the war is won.”

Meanwhile, David Brooks looks at the past few years and says conventional wisdom was backwards: “In fact, when it comes to Iraq, Bush was at his worst when he was humbly deferring to the generals and at his best when he was arrogantly overruling them.”