To be confirmed in a decade or so...

By which time, of course, it being modern America we'll be involved in another couple of conflicts we are assuredly winning according to the President at the time.

A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and Nato commanders fear neighbouring Pakistan and Iran are fuelling the insurgency.

And on that score, see the next round pushed by the Right, after they get done calling Obama Hitler and an appeaser simultaneously:

A former CIA director says military action against Iran now seems more likely because no matter what the U.S. does diplomatically, Tehran keeps pushing ahead with its suspected nuclear program.

Michael Hayden, a CIA chief under President George W. Bush, says that during his tenure a strike was "way down the list" of options. But he tells CNN's "State of the Union" that such action now "seems inexorable."

Tune seems familiar.