How to End the War: Negotiations Now! by Justin Raimondo

The Americans are stalemated in Iraq, and they now face a choice: negotiations or endless conflict. The administration may wake up tomorrow to the fact that there will be no military solution to the problem of the insurgency, or it may take a year or so: in the end, however, the American people are going to rebel against the rising carnage and the lack of a clear objective, no matter how many times Bush (or his successor) conjures the specter of 9/11. The president's recent peroration was a rather ineffective attempt to hold back that tide, but the increasingly visible face of the Iraqi insurgents – not that of Zarqawi, or Osama bin Laden, but the nationalist Samarie – is undermining his contention that we're fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq.