"These are the times that try men's souls..."

Norman Podhoretz channels Tom Paine in his latest essay for Commentary, “The Panic”. Regarding Iraq, Norman, as always, looks behind the curtain:

…my twofold guess is that the real fear behind it is not that we are losing but that we are winning, and that what has catalyzed this fear into a genuine panic is the realization that the chances of pulling off the proverbial feat of snatching an American defeat from the jaws of victory are rapidly running out.