NPR commentator Jim Sollisch wrote for today’s Washington Post about how the Iraq war was going badly:

If our goal is to liberate Iraq and help it create a democracy, I can’t think of a worse place to go for lessons than Israel, where the average citizen needs the courage of a soldier just to ride a bus. If $87 billion didn’t get Americans out in the street protesting, I’m not sure images of razor wire and checkpoints will either. But they sure woke up this reluctant antiwar protester.