Are We Getting Close?

I find it funny that almost everyone wants the same thing from the US Military in Iraq. Everyone wants it to leave. Iraqis want the US military to leave so they can run their own country. Al Queda wants us to leave so they can set up a base in Iraq and claim victory. Hawks want to win the war, so we can leave. Doves want us to leave to prove that the war was wrong all along (this is cynical but is it true?).

It's hard to measure how the war on terror is going. It's hard to measure how Iraq is going.

I don't much believe the "finger in the wind" politicians claiming that Iraq is a lost cause. Nor do I believe we have in any way secured victory. The biggest indicator to me, that Iraq is NOT going well is that we are unable to get Zarqawi. If things were going well, it seems to me, that Iraqis would be trying to rat out Zarqawi and stop his nonsense. It seems like we are close to getting him, but it's felt that way for awhile.