If the world’s greatest newspaper says it, well, by all means, it must be true: “Across the U.S., Concern Grows About the Course of the War in Iraq.” The New York Times, of course, would never dream of publishing fiction, or of distorting reality to advance the paper’s political agenda, So we will take the Times headline at face value and accept the premise that Americans are concerned about their country’s role in postwar Iraq. They have a right to be concerned. More U.S. soldiers have died since the end of formal combat operations than were killed in the actual...