Mythology of America and Losing in Iraq

(Cross-posted at The Left Coaster.)

Via Digby, Josh Marshal explains why adding 20,000 more troops will only exacerbate failure in Iraq, and that one of the solutions to extrication is that we “stop lying to ourselves.”  Interestingly enough, the first post at Hullabaloo from tristero relates to a Bill Clinton speech where he asserts that Americans are “returning to empiricism.”