Here they come, the parade of former Republican Hawks who are now saying that the war is unwinnable: 

Start with one Andrew Sullivan, who heaped bile and scorn on those of us who opposed the war from the start.  Now Andrew is posting snippets from Stratfor, (Subscription) “Your Source For Actionable Intelligence” which now tell us that the war is lost.

According to Andrew:

We have to hope and pray that a democratic miracle really will emerge. There have been darknesses before dawn in history before. And then there have just been darknesses.

Try “I was wrong.“  Works a lot better than the Lord of the Rings speech.

Following Andrew is Rep. Howard Coble, a former GOP hawk, now calling for a pullout:

Coble voted to grant Bush the sweeping war-making powers believing that the administration had a "post-invasion strategy." Apparently, there was none, he said.

"If there was, I wish someone would tell me what it is or show it to me," he said. "I'd like to see it."

Coble said that if he had known there was no post-invasion strategy at the time of the vote on the war-powers resolution he would have "insisted that we keep our powder dry while we do some probing and planning."

Coble said he simply assumed that the administration had a post-invasion plan.

Isn't it the place of pundits like Sullivan and Congressmen like Coble to ask the right questions before the war?  Guess not.