Gotcha, Jonah, on Arianna. Whether she’s being unintelligent (doubtful), cynical (possible), or some combination of calculating (she’s in the business of driving traffic to her website) and ideological (she does seem actually to believe what she says), she is, without the slightest doubt, mistaken.
Re Republican support for the war, by the way, let us all keep our attention fixed on the man of the hour, General David Petraeus. Petraeus has had under his command the full complement of troops required for the surge for only about three weeks now. But he already appears to be reshaping events on the ground. Rudy, Mitt, Fred–they’ll all recognize this. My hunch is that Republican primary voters will too.