Prime Choice Grade-A Cut for Today

Bingo. Awesome piece. Read Victor Davis Hanson on the current state of affairs.

We are fighting with tremendous skill, at a minimum loss of lives — and in the middle of an economic slump and a raucous [election] campaign. But the paradox remains that the very rapidity of our victories abroad and the absence of another 9/11 at home have lulled far too many into thinking that Islamic fascism and Middle East totalitarianism can be eradicated in a few months, or that a complex society like postbellum Iraq should resemble a New England township five months after a war.