Actually, Jim, I don’t really disagree with any of that. You’re right that O’Hanlon and Pollack aren’t quite the converts that many people (and maybe a few puppies) seem to think they are. And if Iraqi leaders don’t make any political progress when parliament reconvenes in September, the military progress won’t mean much. (The hope, of course, is that the military progress will facilitate the political progress.) I just wanted to point out how unserious some of O’Hanlon and Pollack’s critics (present company very much excluded!) are being. (For more on that, see Jon Chait here and here.)
