Here Comes Petraeus

In her continuing -- and basically successful -- bid to make all other commentary obsolete, Hilzoy posts "thirteen ways to not look at the Petraeus Report." Meanwhile, The Washington Post takes their own look at the surge and concludes that "recent improvements are sometimes tenuous, temporary, even illusory." And Ilan Goldberg wonders why the military's death figures don't count Shi'a-on-Shi'a fighting, Sunni-on-Sunni violence, or car bombings. "I have an idea," he says. "Why don't we count murder rates in the U.S. but exclude all gun violence." And then our police commissioner can go testify before the City Council as to his extraordinary success reducing violence!