“The Iraq war? Fuggedaboudit. ‘Now, it is time to turn the page.’ So advises the commander-in-chief at least. ‘[T]he bottom line is this,’ President Obama remarked last Saturday, ‘the war is ending.’ Alas, it’s not. Instead, the conflict is simply entering a new phase. And before we hasten to turn the page — something that the great majority of Americans are keen to do — common decency demands that we reflect on all that has occurred in bringing us to this moment.” (08/31/10)