Gray Lady Hedges

Ralph Peters, NY Post, RCP great intro:

SOMETIMES where a thing is said is bigger news than what was said. That happened on Monday, when The New York Times ran a guest op-ed detailing the progress in Iraq.

Long before the fall of Baghdad, The New York Times was as dogmatically pessimistic about the Bush administration's efforts as it was gushingly supportive of Joseph Stalin in the 1930s. It even promoted the least-qualified op-ed writer in North America as its point man for its attacks on our military: Frank Rich, whose experience was with ballet slippers, not combat boots.

Rich must feel like a dying swan just now.

(Previous post, Winning the War on the guest op-ed.)

UPDATE: Tony Blankley on the hinge of fate in Iraq. (Though some would argue it was Patton, not Montgomery, who was the decisive force:) And Arab allies plead with us not to leave Iraq.