WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS... "American soldiers are also much more optimistic than American civilians," writes Max Boot in today's LA Times. "The Pew Research Center and the Council on Foreign Relations just released a survey of American elites that found that 64% of military officers are confident that we will succeed in establishing a stable democracy in Iraq. The comparable figures for journalists and academics are 33% and 27%, respectively."

Okay, so you tell me. What's the real takeaway in all that? The poll's supposedly impressive finding that just over 60% of this nation's military officers are confident that we're going to succeed in Iraq? Or the fact that almost 40% of them aren't?

Via Glenn Reynolds, with whom I occasionally disagree, but certainly not about this: more is better!