Where's Ernie Pyle, Now that We Need Him?

Swami says the war is over. If so (and I don't think so), an anti-war press has turned Iraq into Vietnam, an unnecessary defeat. But is the war really going as badly as the press thinks? Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institute says that the military may be too optimistic but the press is too pessimistic.

James Q. Wilson says that what we care about is not who did or didn't mislead the public but whether we are winning. That's why it's essential for a biased press to present an unjustifiably negative picture of the Iraq war.