More on the NY Times "Victory" Article

National Review Online held a symposium concerning the Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack Editorial in the NY Times ("A War We Might Just Win"). Here's Victor Davis Hanson's view to which I strongly concur:

In a wider sense, the war is as most wars: an evolution from
blunders to wisdom, the side that makes the fewest and learns from them the most
eventually winning. Al Qaeda and the insurgents in 2004-6 developed the means,
both tactical and strategic, to thwart the reconstruction, but we, not they,
have since learned the more and evolved.

As in the Civil War, WWI, and WWII, the present American
military — which has committed far less mistakes than past American forces — has
shifted tactics, redefined strategy, and found the right field commanders. We
forget that the U.S. Army and Marines, far from being broken, now have the most
experienced and wizened officers in the world. Like Summer 1864, Summer 1918,
and in the Pacific 1944-5, the key is the support of a weary public for an ever
improving military that must nevertheless endure a final storm before breaking
the enemy.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Like all plans, the Surge deserves a chance to succeed. America's reputation as a dependable ally is at stake.