I was reading this Howard Kurtz piece in the WaPo about CBS’s star foreign correspondent Lara Logan (not very interesting) when an ad caught my eye.

Take that, Walt and Mearsheimer!

Arianna Huffington is disappointed that the surge has worked well enough to give Americans the impressions that things have improved in Iraq [e.a.]:

John McCain, aided and abetted by his loving protectors in the media, is running a victory lap on Iraq. To hear them tell it, the surge has “worked” — indeed, it has been a huge success — and this, like a last second Hail Mary pass, has vindicated the entire disastrous Iraq misadventure.

Buoyed by a reduction in violence in Iraq, war supporters are crawling out from the shadows and beating their chests.

“I am proud of the decision of this administration to overthrow Saddam Hussein,” Condi Rice told Judy Woodruff last week. This echoed the comments of her boss, who crowed at a GOP awards dinner at the end of June: “The decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right decision at the time, and it is the right decision today.” Bush even felt emboldened to dust off blast from the past and claim: “Democracy is taking root where a tyrant once ruled.”

And the media — and even a number of Democrats — are swallowing this triumphalist nonsense whole, and washing it down with a pitcher of revisionist Kool-Aid. The result: a collective case of political amnesia.

Arianna dear: most of us want to forget about Iraq. You’ll need to find another line of attack against McCain. Back to the drawing board for you.