The election results have changed the media’s Iraq take much. This morning, NBC’s Matt Lauer asked Sen. Lindsey Graham the usual gloomy question “The elections in Iraq are just more than a couple of months away, and the situation in Iraq right now is difficult because insurgents have stepped up the violence. They overran a couple of police stations over the weekend and executed some 22 Iraqi police officers. They tried to assassinate the interim finance minister. Car bombings, there is a state of emergency. Can legitimate elections really be held under those conditions?”
A better question for Matt: If we keep signaling to terrorists that if they create enough violence, Iraq can never have an election, aren’t you encouraging the violence?