VDH's Most Excellent Report

Victor Davis Hanson has an editorial at townhall.com that is well worth reading. This man is a historian worth his salt. To mangle a old saw a bit, he's not about to forget the past so will not likely make wild and condemnable assertions about the future. Anyway.

"For over four years, war critics insisted that we took our eye off Afghanistan, empowered Iran, allowed other rogue nations to run amuck and soured our allies while we were mired in an unnecessary war. But how true is all that?"

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"Iraq for the last 20 years was the worst place in the Middle East. The irony is that it may now have the most promising future in the entire region."

What if Iraq works? Read the whole thing.