I truly don't understand why few, if any, either in the blogosphere or MSM see no parallels between the testimony this week of Petraeus and Crocker and that, admittedly a while ago, of Westmoreland, Abrams, MacNamara, Laird and others.

For me, it is truly dejavu.  The same questions and the same answers. 

The reality is when we leave -and we will - there will be some sort of bloodletting.  Hells Bells, its going on now.  Will it get worse - likely.

But part of the problem is us.  And that will change when we leave.  Viet Nam is now a functioning country growing along with the rest of Asia.  Iraq will, in its own way, go a similar, yet different.