Right/Left Right/Wrong

I'll cop to Andrew Sullivan making a very smart point about the perils of Bush's and McCain's foreign policy plans here.

But if you're reasonable, you also must admit that had Barak Obama and other anti-war folks had their way in 2005-2006, we'd be in MUCH worse shape than we are as a result of the surge.

So while it's now wise to now temper the language of "victory," with respect to the Iraq War, it's also probably wise to temper the language of defeat and blunder, etc.

No one has been right about this thing all along. And going for the binary descriptions - pro-war/anti-war, victory/defeat, win/surrender won't lead us out of divisiveness, it'll just plunge us into it further and further.