The article to which Troll refers is by the editor-in-chief of "The American Enterprise - Online" (www.taemag.com). On the website's "About T.A.E." page, the organization describes itself in one paragraph as "fiercely independent... We don't have a party line", but in the next paragraph it says "Thousands of conservative activists, local leaders, congressmen, state and federal judges, writers, researchers, military officers, and business executives read us… Lots of non-conservative readers enjoy and respect us too (sometimes with one eyebrow raised)." On the site's "Internships" page, the organization describes its philosophy as "center-conservative".

So it doesn't surprise me in the least to see Troll describe a T.A.E. article as being "a very different story from the gloom and doom..." Obviously, T.A.E. has a vested interest in downplaying the horrors of the situation in Iraq and painting a rosy picture of "improvements" there. Don't be fooled by T.A.E's bias!