Today's Reading Assignment

Iraq by the numbers, from Bill Roggio at the Long War Journal. The first slide in Bill's article is an update of one we posted a few months ago. Note the continuing, dramatic decline in attacks.

Here's the latest slide, which includes data through 7 December of this year. Note the dramatic decline in all types of attacks since February of this year, and the commencement of the troop surge.


Wonder if Harry Reid's seen this one? Still, we must give the Senate Majority Leader--and his party--some credit for consistency. Mr. Reid and his colleagues would have been right at home in supporting George McClellan's "The War is Lost/Let's Negotiate platform of 1864, as William Katz observes.

H/T: Powerline.