Unfinished Business

UPDATE: NY Times admits we are doing something right, "U.S. Adapts Cold-War Idea to Fight Terrorists"
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Watch this. Via HotAir, a Marine serenades the Dixie Chicks.

And read this. Fouad Ajami, WSJ, "No Surrender":

Still, five years on, this endeavor in Iraq is taking hold. The U.S. military was invariably the great corrector. In their stoic acceptance of the mission given them and in the tender mercies they showed Iraqis on a daily basis, our soldiers held out the example of benevolent rule.

UPDATE: Sadr Admits Failure in Iraq. UPDATE: NY Times John Burns "Hounded by Iraqi Musclemen, a Journalist Awaited His Own Liberation"