It's Been Worse

National Review has a worth-reading article about where we were sixteen months into all of our previous wars that lasted that long. The long and short of it is, we were losing in all of them.


One could fairly point out that we've been talking about Iraq for the past 14 months as being in a "post-war occupation," not a "war." Many, myself included, have made the analogy to post-WW2 Germany. Nevertheless, we've done more with few casualties on both sides in this war than in any of our previous ones, and that's worth pointing out. I still say the best analogy for Iraq is Aguinaldo's insurgency in the Phillipines 100 years ago. One of these days, I may go into some detail on the subject.