If there is one thing that many are guilty of, it's writing history while it is happening, when we all know that 10 or 20, or even 100 years later we'll have a better understanding of what actually occured. Harry Reid is doing it now, and so is the Daily Kos.

Iraq was a war that didn't have to be. Now its going to take a massive effort to avoid another war at home.

That is a Kos poster named "Devilstower," referring to a statement by someone who should know better, Christopher Fettweis, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College. Here's a bit from Fettweis:

The American people seem to understand, however -- and historians will certainly agree (emph. added) -- that the war itself was a catastrophic mistake. It was a faulty grand strategy, not poor implementation.

If they claim to think they are so intelligent, how come they can't grasp this simple fact that history can never be fully understood until it is actually in the past? Isn't their whole argument that they are the intelligent ones and we are all the red state idiots? If that is so, how come they keep trying to sum up the history of a situation before it is played out? They want to be the writers of history, but history is written by the victors, and the lame half-assed bloggers at the Daily Kos will never know what being a victor is, because they advocate defeat before the game is over. They do not seem as as smart as they would have you believe.

Will historians agree? I don't know and neither do you, but you come off like an ass presuming you do.