Victor Davis Hanson is his usual masterful self, as he discusses the myths of the War on Iraq and the media’s distortions of reality. And he concludes with a great reflection that puts it all in pespective:
These are still perilous times. But if anyone on September 12, 2001, had predicted that 22 months later there would still be no repeat of 9/11; that bin Laden would be either quiet, dead, or in hiding; that al Qaeda would be dispersed, the Taliban gone, and the likes of a Mr. Karzai in Kabul; that Saddam Hussein would be out of power, his sons dead, and an Iraqi national council emerging in his place; that troops would be leaving Saudi Arabia, Arafat ostracized, and Sharon seeking negotiations; that new Middle East agreements under discussion—and all at a cost of fewer than 300 American lives—then he would surely have been written off as a madman.