By the Way: We're Not Losing By Austin Bay

The chattering class nostrum that Free Iraq and its coalition allies have 'lost the Iraq war' is so blatantly wrong it would be a source of laughter were human life and hope-inspiring liberty not at such terrible risk.
In terms of fundamental historical changes favoring 21st century freedom and peace, what Free Iraq and its Coalition allies have accomplished in four short years is nothing short of astonishing.
Consider what Iraq was, not simply in A.D. March 2003, but in 2003 B.C. Both historical frames provide instructive lessons in the obvious.
Iraq, as ancient Mesopotamia (the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers), seeded Abraham's Ur and Hammurabi's Babylon. The region was the Eden of city-states, the consolidator and exporter of the Agricultural Revolution. It is also the center of a predominantly Muslim region where -- to paraphrase historian Bernard Lewis -- something 'went wrong.' Lewis was addressing the 'fossilization' that began to afflict the Middle East at least six centuries ago, a cultural, intellectual and, yes, political ossification and decline.

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