My column on Iraq one year on prompted a lot of skeptical commentary in the wake of the last week's news. Peter Caress in Bethesda summed up most of the main points: Given the current state of affairs in Iraq — the massacre in Fallujah, the Sadrist uprising — I wonder if you need to rethink your column "One year on, and Iraq's better off." Especially point (3): "The suicide-bomber depravity is getting more depraved even as it gets more impotent. But there remains no widespread popular 'resistance' except in the minds of the left's armchair insurgents." A lot more Shi'ites...