This is also posted on my blog that not even I read but I thought that it might actually be of interest to enough folks that I decided to make it my first ever diary entry here.
I got to thinking about what is success in Iraq and .....
I have had a bit of a conversation with a commenter in a thread on my blog that started out talking about a light hearted post from the folks at Sadly, No and it has got me thinking about what would it take for a successful outcome in Iraq. In other words, what is success and how would we know it if it smacked us in the face.
To this end I have come up with the following short list of things that I think would show that there was something that reasonable folks could say approached success for the current adventure in Iraq.
* There is a new front page for The Baghdad Bulletin
* Refreshing this page a month apart gives the exact same list
* This page says simply "done"
* This page gives a 404 error