“The vast majority of the place is now almost undoubtedly far safer than those public housing areas in Chicago” – Maybe that hints why the cunning of history might be shifting priorities back to the domestic front – W. couldn’t have made diff here – no base that believed in gov intervention (outside DoD). But history is always in the making – Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop – so anyone who wants to gloat is going sound as silly as W. (“Major combat ops are over” – tell it to the Marines who took Fallujah!) OR Kerry…