The whole world changed in two weeks

My new favorite blogger, Glenn Greenwald, hits the nail squarely on the head:

For months and months, polls have showed that solid majorities of Americans believe the war was a mistake. That consensus didn't arise as a result of a single event, or a report of a car bomb, or because one bad thing happened. It was because the war itself has been failing fundamentally. Nothing that we wanted to accomplish was actually being accomplished. Everything we said before the war about why we needed to wage it turned out to be false and has been discredited. Far from winning 'hearts and minds' in the Muslim world, few things have harmed how we are perceived in that part of the world (supposedly the current aim of our war effort) more than our occupation has.

This statement comes in the context of a much longer post about how remarkable it is that the media have encouraged us to think that events like killing Zarqawi--dramatic as they are--have changed little on the ground, day to day, in Iraq. It should be tattooed on the palm of the hand of everyone who promoted this useless war and especially those who promoted it but won't fight it to win.