I can't agree. Iraq is very much still at war, with the surgents backed by Syria, Iran, and bolstered by Saudi, Syrian, Pakistani, and Palestinian fighters. It isn't reconstruction. Indeed, the ongoing "security problem", which is really a terrorist war, is preventing the kind of reconstruction the United States and Great Britain, with very good intentions, would like to do.
The American left likes to call Iraq a quagmire. Unless, as the author suggests, the U.S. is willing to fight to win, it will be just that and the end result will be no better than in Vietnam. The U.S. can certainly win the war in Iraq if it has the will to do so.
There are times it is better to be feared than to be popular.
Cut and run with Kerry!