If anything has come to typify the left’s rush to declare any setback in Iraq, no matter how tiny or temporary, as proof the whole enterprise has collapsed, perhaps the "battle of Basra" best illustrates it. Quickly declared a loss for Maliki and the Iraqi government and a victory for al-Sadr, the left screamed about the inept Iraqis, the failure the ISF action and the poor quality of the troops, etc., etc, etc. Yet here we are, roughly a month after the action was initiated and the...