Endgame Viable

The war in the Senate over the “war” in Iraq was about timetables — Democrats wanted a timetable, but Republicans didn’t. I think “time” was the wrong metric, though. Democrats should have been questioning Iraq in terms of “deliverables.” Ie., what exactly constitutes “victory” in Iraq? The Bush administration says we’ll stay until the mission is complete, which makes sense, but what exactly is the mission? Killing terrorists? Training Iraqis? Rebuilding infrastructure? Personally I think it should be more of the latter one, and less of the former two, and we should keep troops there as long as insurgents keep trying to blow up everything our contractors build.