Friends, have you read much about Iraq lately? I mean, in the news, and in the opinion columns (assuming there is a distinction)? For years, Iraq dominated our news and our commentary. But I have seen very few items about Iraq in recent weeks, or months.

Is it because George W. Bush is no longer president? Was Iraq simply a club with which to beat a hated president? (Hated by many who give us the news.) Is it that the Iraq War has been — dare we use the word — won? But weren’t we promised that the Iraq War was unwinnable?

Anyway, curious.

We conservatives joked that, when Bill Clinton became president, succeeding Reagan and Bush 41, the homeless went away. (You have no idea how prominent homelessness was in the news, especially during the Reagan years.) Could it be that, with GWB retired, Iraq has gone away?

Not for the Iraqis, I would think . . .