Today the MSM marks the three-year anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq. There is a lot to read on the Web and in newspapers, and certainly the TV networks are weighing in as well. A few things that are nowhere to be seen in the "analysis" ought to be highlighted. America spent many years pursuing a strategy of "stability" that only offered superficial and illusory, not to mention imperfect, quiet while a violent undercurrent of Islamic radicalsim grew.

That "status quo" strategy had five decades to prove itself and was clearly a failure, but the Scowcroftian realpolitik adherents still have the nerve to declare the Bush Doctrine as dead after only three years. This rush to judgement is not only unfair, since three years is less than the blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things, but the urgency with which the President's opponents invoke it indicates a fear that if allowed to take root over several more years the President could be proven right.

There is very real progress being made and it is indisputably true that even more progress would likely be made if partisan opponent and their MSM enablers were not sinping daily at American foreign policy. Over the course of the war in Iraq, most critics have been wrong, but they keep making bad predictions. Nobody outside the White House seems to have a sense of historical perspective or an understanding that this war against radical Islam, which the establishment of an Arab democracy would advance, is a generational struggle that cannot be judged after only three years.

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