Progress in Iraq? Not Exactly.

The Kool-Aid Drinkers have not been shy in proclaiming that "we are on the right track in Iraq." They point to things such as the number of deaths is down, while glossing over the main reason for that, which is that in many parts of Iraq, the sectarian cleansing has been completed.

Here is a different view.

And things are going so well that the State Department now has to force its people to go work in Baghdad.