There is reason to believe that a "Plan B" in Iraq will focus on exploiting the success of the current surge rather than on mitigating a failure.

Iraq's Sunni Arab insurgents are turning against al Qaeda, and that is not a bad thing.

With daily reports of death and destruction, it is easy to view Iraq as a hopeless quagmire, but the situation is far more nuanced than outside commentators often portray.

President Bush has been considered a failure for his policies in the Middle East; however, a representative government is slowly forming in Iraq and progress has been made with Islamic extremists.