Iraq

Vietnam : Iraq

1974 : 2006

Carter : Obama

Several new, useless Cabinet-level Federal agencies : ?

Serious deterioration of military preparedness : ?

A naive foreign policy that punishes friends and appeases enemies : ?

I could go on, but I'll just do one more:

Reagan : ?

... is, according to John Tabin:

It is in our national interest to stop humanitarian disasters. Except in Iraq.

Reasonable folks can have different opinions about whether the invasion of Iraq was the right thing to do in 2003. This is of interest only to historians.

Interesting analysis by Steve Shippert in The Tank:

Hugh Hewitt:

Word is leaking that the GOP in the Senate are on the verge of agreeing to an immigration bill that has --as a concession to the GOP-- less than half of the fencing promised by law last year.

Mickey Kaus:

Loser Harry Reid doesn't want to hear about any progress in Iraq, "in effect calling General Petraeus a liar":

Andrew C. McCarthy on George Tenet, another of George W. Bush's personnel mistakes: