The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg dryly remarked yesterday, “I know this isn’t as important as Bristol Palin’s pregnancy, but . . . Anbar province is now under the control of the Iraqi Army.”Thanks for the catch; this is great news, and a profoundly important development, though of course the Washington Post can be counted on to put the worst possible face on it. Things are definitely on the upswing, though, as Gen. David Petraeus is now saying we might be able to pull out of Baghdad soon.And for a preview of what the next four years could look like around the world, we also found out yesterday that Joe Biden had told senior Israeli officials that “Israel will have to reconcile itself with the nuclearization of Iran,” because “I am against opening an additional military and diplomatic front.”So, on the one hand, we have the McCain foreign policy, which President Bush finally adopted: the heart of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq is now peacefully in the hands of a friendly Iraqi government. On the other, we have the promised Biden foreign policy, which he’s sure a President Obama will dutifully follow: let the ayatollahs get nukes.I know which one I’d rather see.
