Dean's World

Yes, this news is indeed good -- but I don't think it's terribly important. Americans seem to treat war with a kind of play-by-play analysis. We just completed a 30-yard pass. Good for us. But we really should be worrying about the big picture, not this petty stuff. When things were really bad, I wasn't particularly concerned with the latest atrocity of the month, or the body count scorecard, or any of that petty stuff that dominates the nightly news and means almost nothing.

I have written up a lengthy four-part analysis of the strategic issues that we need to grapple with in the Iraq War. You can find it at my blog at

http://civildiscussionbetween.blogspot.com/

I encourage everybody to read it, as it will give you much food for thought. However, if you wish to comment on it, you'll need to conform to the very strict rules of civility that I define in the first post (at the bottom).

This is good news!