NO MORE FRIEDMANS

Yes, it's true: The right has moved the goalposts for the last time, at least in this administration. This is from the we'll-out-wingnut-the Wall-Street-Journal editorial page of Investor's Business Daily:

Victory In '09

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been briefed on a detailed plan to establish "sustainable security" throughout Iraq by the summer of 2009, the New York Times reported this week. U.S. forces commander Gen. David Petraeus and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker reportedly developed the strategy, which aims first at securing Baghdad by the middle of next year, then achieving nationwide stability by mid-2009.

... our forces and our strategists in Iraq now know what works, with just one possible missing ingredient in their recipe for victory: time. Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commanding U.S. forces south of Baghdad, recently made it clear it will take him a year to establish security there....

The mid-September "deadline" has been rendered irrelevant. Senators and congressmen now have a duty to rally the country toward a victory over terrorism in '09.

I've edited out the details, but you know what they are -- Anbar is groovy now! Many Sunnis now hate al-Qaeda! So it's all over but the shouting!

Bush's triumph really is in sight: victory over the people who wanted him to be a girly man and withdraw before 1/20/09. And now everyone on the right will be on board, because this will now be the #1 talking point.

So let's raise a cheer to the brave generals and diplomats and other infighters who skillfully moved the goalposts until Bush didn't need them moved anymore....