A smart comment on Iraq

This comes to us from Gen. William E. Odom's recent Op-ed column in the Washington Post, "Victory Is Not an Option".

"For the moment, the collision of the public's clarity of mind, the president's relentless pursuit of defeat and Congress's anxiety has paralyzed us. We may be doomed to two more years of chasing the mirage of democracy in Iraq and possibly widening the war to Iran. But this is not inevitable. A Congress, or a president, prepared to quit the game of "who gets the blame" could begin to alter American strategy in ways that will vastly improve the prospects of a more stable Middle East... No task is more important to the well-being of the United States."