A spot-on criticism of the Bush administration’s wobbly, try-to-please-everyone “War on Terror,” by comedian/actor Larry Miller—who proves again to be one of the best common sense commentators on the scene: It’s the War, Stupid. (Hat tip: Jheka.)

Message to the administration: No one in Europe or on the left is ever, ever, ever going to like you from seeing a photograph of a marine handing a bag of groceries to a woman in a burkha. Jacques Chirac is never going to say, “Well, they have built a lot of community centers. Maybe Bush was right.”

Win. Stop building schools. Win. There’s plenty of time and need for hospitals, but first … Win. Yes, yes, Iraqi girls can be very empowered by seeing a female colonel running an outreach program, and we can all chip in for the posters that say “Take Your Daughters To Mosque Day,” but in the meantime, would you please win.

If I have to listen to one more administration spokesperson say, “The overwhelming number of Iraqis is with us, it’s just a small percentage of cranks causing all the trouble,” I’ll be tempted to say something I swore I never would: “Du-uuh.”

A small percentage, huh? About the same size as the few thousand Bolsheviks who took over the 100 million Russians in 1917? More? Less?

In service of this goal, I would like to propose a new slogan. It’s based on the old anti-war chant from the sixties, “Peace Now!” You must’ve heard that one. Demonstrators have been shouting it for the last 40 years. “Peace Now, Peace Now, Peace Now.” Hell, I think I probably shouted it, myself, somewhere around ‘73. (This would have been shortly before the drinking age in Massachusetts went down to 18, after which my friends and I took to shouting far more sensible things, like, “You can’t cut us off, it’s only 11:00. Hey, let go of me.”)

Here’s the new slogan: Win now.