THE PRESS DID ITS BEST TO IGNORE the Afghan elections. I suspect that, since that’s not an option with the Iraqi vote, they’ll be doing their best to portray it as a failure somehow. I also suspect that it won’t work. One of the things that made press coverage so damaging in Vietnam was that it was the first time anyone remembered American reporters saying bad things about an American war effort. By now, hardly anyone is alive who remembers anything else.

UPDATE: More here.