America’s most controversial war since Vietnam is into its seventh year. There are two schools of thought about what is happening in Iraq. The conventional wisdom is that it is a debacle, on the cusp of a civil war, and that it is good that the United States and her allies are finally in the process of withdrawing from this hell hole. The second, more recent, version, involving an examination of the so-called surge of five US brigades to Baghdad and 4000 Marines to Anbar Province in early 2007, concludes that things are looking a lot brighter in Iraq than…