Bloodless Coup

More Jihadis, Less Jihadis, Iraq is Always a Win for Team Bush - and a Loss for the Rest of Us

Matt Duss notes the contradictions, which is amusing as far as it goes, but of course still leaves us with a debacle.

While on a darkly satirical level I appreciate that Gerecht's new line of pro-war bull directly contradicts previous lines of pro-war bull, it must be understood that there is simply no way to draw a smiley face on all this, no calculus that can justify the costs of this debacle, no way that the Iraq war ends up as a net positive for the region, or for the U.S. Any productive debate over where to go from here must begin with that.