Glenn Reynolds has some thoughts. There’s nothing with which I’d disagree. I, too, thought that this was part of a larger strategy. Sadly, there’s been little evidence of it on the ground.

Big government is incompetent. This seems to have played out in the war, as in all else.

If I believed in a god, I’d pray. All I can do, as it is, is hope for better leaders. And think about history, in which when all was darkest, they seemed to appear.