Those Brookings tools.

Because it's an opinion piece that claims We're Winning, Putz the Pavlovian links to the O'Hanlon and Pollack article, snarkily noting, "It's in the New York Times, so it must be true." (Putz has apparently never heard of Judy Miller.)

Thankfully, Greenwald unloads on these guys and Brookings as only Greenwald can.

What is the most vivid and compelling evidence of how broken our political system is? It is that the exact same people who urged us into the war in Iraq, were wrong in everything they said, and issued one false assurance after the next as the war failed, continue to be the same people held up as our Serious Iraq Experts. The exact "experts" to whom we listened in 2002 and 2003 are the same exact establishment "experts" now.

Hence, today we have yet another Op-Ed declaring that We Really Are Winning in Iraq This Time -- this one in the NYT from "liberal" Brookings Institution "scholars" Ken Pollack and Mike O'Hanlon. They accuse war critics of being "unaware of the significant changes taking place," proclaim that "we are finally getting somewhere in Iraq, at least in military terms," and the piece is entitled "A War we Might Just Win."

RTWT.