What a difference four years make.

Four years ago, after his triumphant landing on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, the president, violating every superstitious rule my mother ever taught me about speaking too soon, announced that our mission was accomplished. Four years later, 175,000 American troops are on the ground, there are five times as many Sunni insurgents as there were four years ago and we have just ended one of the deadliest months in the long war.

Are we be ...

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