>>With Iraq fast vanishing from the headlines, Georgia has become a political issue.<<

Oh, it’s still in the headlines, Wretchard. You’ve simply stopped paying attention because the facts have become inconvienent. The Shiite Islamist government is turning on the Anbar Awakening:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-brimley26-2008aug26,0,4646204.story

They’re shutting down voting centers to sabotage the elections:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2008-08-14-Iraq-vote-witness_N.htm

And Malaki is plotting with Iran Ayatollah Khamaenei as to how to best get the Americans to leave.

http://www.nysun.com/foreign/maliki-bets-that-obama-will-prevail/82374/

Your entire illusion of victory in Iraq is premised on the Shiite Islamist parties that rule being quickly transformed into “Jeffersonian democrats”. What happens when even you can’t maintain that fiction? Is it dishonesty, or simply doublethink?