Spent this morning watching the TV talking heads, mostly talking about Iraq 3 yrs on. Mostly predictable stuff: Gen. Casey–”Hang in there,” Rep. Murtha–”Get out of there,” etc. Best say-WHAT? line: Zbig on CNN suggesting we should TELL the Iraqi govt. to ASK us to leave.

Lots of play for Rumsfeld’s Wa-Po comment that pulling out now would be like handing post-WW2 Germany back to the Nazis. Dr. K (also on CNN), who was actually **in** post-WW2 Germany, interpreting for the US army, shot that one down. It’s astonishing to see these Germany-Japan analogies still being bandied around by people who really should know better. (a) As Dr. K said, Germany was out for the count, there was no insurgency. They were beaten, and knew it. (b) Japan even more so–we dropped tow nukes on them for goodness’ sake. (c) Both Germany and Japan are ethnostates, with zero potential for civil war. Alas, my longstanding call for an indefinite moratorium on ALL analogies of anything at all to Nazi Germany still goes unheeded.