The Thing About The Right

using body counts as a measure to define success in Iraq is that it only takes a couple bad events to ruin their narrative and make them look foolish. That's why nobody interested in success in Iraq would actually peg it to casualty rates. A political settlement is a long-lasting solution. Ephemeral security benchmarks can be upset by a lone suicide bomber.

I don't understand why the wingnutosphere keeps falling for this. Shouting "We're winning" at the top of your lungs is not a strategy. Neither is pointing to a chart and saying "They're only killing as many people as they did in January 2006!"