Second Best

I've been wondering for some time why the U.S. doesn't just give up trying to police the large population centers of Iraq, and instead withdraw to the much-friendlier, more-easily-defensible precincts of northern Iraq, to Iraqi Kurdistan, where we have actual allies - people who would be happy to have us there, and have been trying to find ways to make us welcome there for some time. Apparently, a few conservatives are beginning to think along the same lines (David Frum at NRO).

Really, it's the only way out of the Iraqi trap sprung for us by George Bush and Company, short of a bloody, Saigon-embassy style of rout.