The Good Guys Won

Whatever the mistakes, the Iraq War has brought the prospect of a better life to a country in a region where such prospects have been mighty dim.

Investor's Business Daily today marks the Iraqi parliament's passage of a security pact with the United States as the best indication yet that the good guys won the war.

Of course, the thing's at a point now where even the candidate who ran in total opposition to American military involvement in Iraq will now see it through to a decent conclusion.

War is always awful. But some things are worse than death, like perpetual enslavement. While it might be better for liberation to come at smaller cost, it came nonetheless.

Once again, we salute those gentle readers who are most personally responsible for this outcome, those noble men and women who wore the uniform and put themselves in danger for the sake of people whom they didn't know.