The Task

In a wonderful article in the San Antonio Express News, Austin Bay boldly describes the task we gave to our military in Iraq:

U.S. and allied forces liberating Iraq will attempt — more or less simultaneously — to end combat operations, cork public passions, disarm Iraqi battalions, bury the dead, generate electricity, pump potable water, bring law out of embittering lawlessness, empty jails of political prisoners, pack jails with criminals, turn armed partisans into peaceful citizens, rearm local cops who were once enemy infantry, shoot terrorists, thwart chiselers, carpetbaggers and black marketeers, fix sewers, feed refugees, patch potholes, get trash trucks rolling and accomplish all this under the lidless gaze of Peter Jennings and Al-Jazeera.

Quite a job. Guess what — six months after Saddam's fall, it's getting done. That's why al-Qaida's latest tape exhorts jihadis to attack. Terrorists are losing in Iraq, "the central battlefield."

You can read about more great accomplishments brining positive change and making democracy possible here.

Thanks to Real Clear Politics for the pointer.