A funny thing happened on the floor of the Senate the other day. Somebody asked a serious question: "If the war in Iraq is lost, then who won?"

Of course Sen. Lindsay Graham, the guy who asked the question, didn’t mean it to be serious. He was just scoring points off Majority Leader Harry Reid, the world’s only Democratic Mormon. Reid had made a "gaffe" by saying in public what everybody already knows: "The war in Iraq is lost." When you say something obviously true in politics, it’s called a "gaffe."

So Graham jumps in to embarrass Reid with his question.

But let’s take the question seriously for a second here: who won in Iraq?

———-

The rest of this excellent article is here