Ferrablog

Harold Myerson of the Washington Post has outdone himself here, with a trenchant analysis of the situtation in Iraq and how it compares to the post-tsar, pre-Lenin interregnum in Russia circa 1917.

His conclusion is noteworthy:

One recent poll shows that near-plurality of Americans now favors our leaving Iraq. But precisely because this was not a war we had to fight, just up and leaving would be politically and morally duplicitous. We wrested control of Iraq when we did not have to, and leaving it to its own devices as sectarian violence grows worse would be a dismal end. The only unequivocally good policy option before the American people is to dump the president who got us into this mess, who had no trouble sending our young people to Iraq but who cannot steel himself to face the Sept. 11 commission alone.