Smile and Say "Quagmire"
The front page of the Washington Post this morning brought some wonderful, unexpected news: According to the U.S. military, we're winning the war in Iraq. Hooray! The way you can tell we're winning? All the dead people! Hoo-ra. . . wait. Oh, they're dead peopleon the other side. Sure, they've killed a lot of our side, too, butwe've killed more. (Who gets to claim the suicide bombers, we wonder.) Hey, this arithmetical approach to war seems familiar somehow...Guess there's more than one way to learn the lessons of Vietnam