Important

While America gets on with its life, for most people, Iraq is simply some godawful place we should never have gone to. It's almost six years since 9/11, and Al Qaeda seems remote and, well, unreal.

But on the other side of the world, our finest and bravest are just now engaging in a desperate endgame battle that will likely determine the outcome of this war.

What most of us will see and hear from our media will be about increasingly desperate bombings and suicide attacks, heightened American casualties, and all the other postcards Al Qaeda will be sending to distract us from the fact that we are destroying them, and have defeated the Sunni insurgency.

We have a few more weeks before the windbags in D.C. use General Petraeus's September report as their pretext for lots of face time decrying this awful war. Does anyone really believe that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will give Petraeus a fair hearing? If Petraeus says we're winning and need six more months, will these two lead the charge for victory?

Of course not. It will be time to "re-deploy" to Indonesia, or Afghanistan or some other place where Al Qaeda is not, and hand them a win in Iraq, presumably after our military has eviscerated them.

Sigh...