...oh, and regarding this line from the Klein column:
If Baghdad isn't stabilized, the war is lost. "I know it's the cliche of the war," an Army counterinsurgency specialist told me last week. "But we'll know in the next six months—and this time, it'll be the last next six months we get."
I've started taking these Friedmanesque predictions and putting their expiration dates in my calendar. If you spot them, please send them in.