Last Chance for Iraq?

DAVID FRUM

THE U.S. HAS NOT YET LOST IN IRAQ, BUT IT IS ON THE VERGE OF losing at home. Public opinion has turned strongly against the war, driven both by a torrent of bad news over the past three years and, especially, by the explosion of sectarian violence in Baghdad this summer. What’s most urgently needed now is a strategy to restore order and government authority in Baghdad. A visible success in Iraq’s highly televised capital would in turn strengthen resolve at home.