The New New Definition of Victory

It's bad enough that Victor Hanson has the temerity to tell the former gatemaster of the Nixon Library, "We’ve lost 3,000 people, and that’s tragic, but..." But this boggles the mind:

HH: ...How would victory look in Baghdad, do you think?

VDH: I think it would be something analogous to what we see in Kurdistan or Turkey. In other words, there would be some worry that it wasn’t as consensual or transparent as a Western European democracy. ...

HH: Would you imagine that occasional car bombings and suicide missions would be a feature of that landscape?

VDH: Absolutely, that we saw them in Algeria, we see them in Morocco. We see them all over the Arab world.

Well, this all makes a weird, perverted kind of sense. Here's a syllogism for you:

1. Hewitt sits on the Victory Caucus board of governors.
2. Victory Caucus advocates "victory" in Iraq.
3. A "feature" of the victorious post-occupation Iraqi capital is car bombings and suicide missions.
4. Ergo, Hugh Hewitt is rooting for car bombings and suicide missions.

How's the song go?

Tomato, tomahto
Victory, 32 dead Iraqis...
Let's call the whole thing off.