23 Oct. Washington Times Op-Ed by Victor Davis Hanson:

Purple Fingers... and Credit Due

"... The obstacles to protecting the democracy are almost surreal: Too much force threatens to alienate wavering Iraqis whose support is critical for the new constitutional government; too little and civilians might well join the terrorists' side in expecting it would win. We hear mostly how much we've done wrong in Iraq. But last week we should have been better reminded of just how much we have done right -- and only because of our mostly unheralded soldiers who gave freedom to 26 million in the hope this might just work."