VICTORY IS HERE!!! How sweet it is Brother!!
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
Amen.
Don't get ahead of events, b. The US has definitely made tremendous gains -- we've almost won, but not quite. And there's still the question of "what next?" Victory is ultimately up to the Iraqis.
Although A-Q is dead in Iraq, Iran still has a stake in destabilizing Iraq, and there's still the possibility things could turn south again if the Iraqis suffer a political crisis, or somebody succeeds in creating new sectarian strife between Sunnis and Shiites.
Afghanistan is different from Iraq in a lot of ways, so the surge strategy we used in Iraq probably won't work right out of the box. The basic ideas of Iraq are probably sound, though, and we've got a lot of Special Forces guys from the first part of the Afghanistan war who can weigh in on the various cultural aspects of the Afghan tribes.
Victory in Afghanistan do-able, and A-Q can definitely be crushed there. But Iran is also active in Afghanistan....
I think that victory in the Middle East requires us finally to deal with Iran. Once that domino has fallen, I think things will be somewhat easier.