After a bloody summer designed to drive us out, the renegades, insurgents and interlopers in Iraq most likely will witness a (quite?) pessimistic forecast by Gen. Petraeus in his long-awaited progress report (in September), followed by perhaps an unprecedented (and irresistible?) pressure by anti-war voices at home, leading, perhaps, to a hastened withdrawal of US troops, and to everybody and their uncle gleefully shooting their weapons in the air in Iraq. Here's the question: at that point, how do we turn the situation to our advantage (as much as we possibly can)?
