It's Friday, which means it's time to go over and read Victor Davis Hanson's latest. He puts things into perspective:

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...

...So far we have lost fewer lives in Afghanistan and Iraq than we did in a single day's butchery in the Marine barracks in Lebanon. But unlike that terrible sacrifice, this time Americans are fighting back, winning, and changing for the better the lives of millions in the most remarkable, ambitious, and risky endeavor since the end of World War II.

If the Dimocrats only had anybody half as intelligent as VDH...

HAAzzah!!

ummm... VDH is a Democrat.
He may be the only one with any sense...

He had me up until...

> the likes of a Mr. Karzai in Kabul

This would be the man the warlords openly refer to as "The Mayor of Kabul". THe one who has to have foreign body guards and who still hasn't seen more than a small fraction of the aid the rest of the world promised him to rebuild the country?

Hardly a "glorious" victory there.

Uh, guess I should have checked his political persuasion in advance. Somehow he never sounds like a democrat, though.

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