Victor Davis Hanson is eloquent as usual, taking on and thoroughly Fisking an op-ed piece by Zbigniew Brzezinski. With his unparalleled knowledge of history and adroit prose, Hanson picks apart Brzezinski’s accusation that the Bush administration is engaged in “suicidal statecraft.” Hanson proves that “things are becoming better rather than worse — even as the media and now the public itself believes that a successful strategy is failing.”

Here’s an excerpt, but you should read the whole article:

The war against the terrorists may be entering the fifth year, but despite over 2,000 combat fatalities, we have still only lost a little over 2/3s of those killed on the very first day of the war, almost 50 months ago — quite a contrast with the over 400,000 American dead at the end of World War II. And a wrecked Japan and Germany were not on a secure path to democracy until six years after America entered the war, unlike Iraq and Afghanistan that were defeated without killing millions and already have held plebiscites on new constitutions.