You want polls? Last year, before pollsters stopped asking the question, nearly 60 percent believed the administration deliberately misled the American people in taking them to war.

This isn't "defeatism" – it's "regretism." Americans feel ripped off because they were sold a bill of goods – a "cakewalk" that materialized into a quagmire, a "liberation" that turned into a nightmare, and "weapons of mass destruction" that turned out to be mirages of mass delusion. ...