A day after the peaceful vote in Iraq, which is the great political triumph of the surge, it was both gobstopping and thrilling to see Gen. David Petraeus, the surge’s designer, tossing the coin at the outset of the Super Bowl. Gobstopping because it appears we have gone from Iraq as the greatest controversy of the decade to a matter so uncontroversial that the savior of the war effort can appear as a pop-culture icon. And thrilling for the same reason.
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