Columnist Jules Crittenden dubs Iraqi Al-Maliki’s eloquent article in the Wall Street Journal the Baghdadysburg Address. With good reason. I hope all those who argue for surrender read it. It charts Iraq’s history from the Ottoman Empire to today, when, despite what you see on TV, there is hope for a better future. He invokes our own Civil War to show that the path to nationhood is not always conflict-free.
