Realization: We can't beat the insurgency.
Conclusion: We should make it angrier, bigger, and more desperate.
This war in Iraq is, like, the best war ever.
Update: Elsewhere in WaPo, Krauthammer drops this cunning point:
We are trying to bring democracy to Iraq in particular because a pro-Western government enjoying legitimacy and popular support would have been the most enduring means of securing our interests there.
We are trying to fill Iraq with koalas holding American flags because koalas are the most enduring means of making the population cuddlier. Why does the left hate cuddliness?
Sometimes, I genuinely believe the planning for the Iraq War was done by the undepants gnomes:
Step 1: Invade. Step 2: ? Step 3: "A pro-Western government enjoying legitimacy and popular support."
