It took 30 years for Americans' confidence in the military to climb out of the pit it had fallen into during the Vietnam War. Will Petraeus' testimony be the tipping point that sends it back toward the cellar?
Experts and editorialists will announce how very crucial The Next Six Months will be, despite the abundant carcasses of previous and equally useless Next Six Months punditry stretching back to Mission Accomplished.
In case you're wondering what other nations make up the 37-nation coalition of forces in Iraq cited by President Bush in his Oval Office speech, you may need a scorecard.
I spent 24 hours this past weekend off the grid -- no television, no print, no online, no news. It was a Jewish thing, not a Walden thing.
The Roberts-Scalia-Thomas-Alito- and-sometimes-Kennedy fivesome on the Court today is the closest the country has come to the domination of the third branch of government.
