War Stories

Between Karl Rove possibly getting invloved with leaking Valerie Plame's identity and Karl Rove implicated in the White House's power grab by replacing U.S. Attorneys who investigated Republicans aggressively and not investigating Democrats all that much, it's a wonder Rove will survive at all. But then, when you have Scooter Libby and Alberto Gonzales to take the fall for you, maybe it's no surprise that Rove has managed to keep his day job.

Meanwhile, today marks an unsettling milestone. We are three days away from the fourth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. Bear in mind that Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House three days short of the fourth anniversary of the attack on Fort Sumter. In other words, as of tomorrow, the Iraq War will have lasted longer than the U.S. Civil War. And the conflict in Iraq has also become a civil war, one in which we're merely along for the ride.