re: #85 SixDegrees

It remains to be seen whether we’ve won or not. There has been a recent upsurge in violence in Iraq, largely in anticipation of the upcoming US withdrawal from urban areas. I would look for such attacks to increase in coming months, as all manner of bad players look to assert their power over the looming vacuum.

The difference, though, will be that the Left will be in charge this time, and will be directly responsible for the collapse of authority and the resulting loss, although they will certainly invent a tale placing blame on the Right nonetheless.

I see you haven’t yet read my essay from last year:

Victory in Iraq Day

Everything I wrote then is even more true now. Especially this part:

Not everybody agrees with the idea of Victory in Iraq Day. The most common arguments against it (and my responses) are:

- What if the violence flares up again next year or in the future? We’ll look foolish.

A: If violence flares up in the future, that will be part of a new conflict, a different war. I’m not pretending to be able to predict the future; all I know is that the war we had been fighting is over.