The White House today released a plan to win the war in Iraq. Read National Strategy for Victory in Iraq in HTML, or read it in PDF format here. We are fortunate that our enemies neither know how to read nor have Internet access--lest they learn about the plan. As its media promotion suggests, National Strategy for Victory in Iraq is more public relations than military blueprint. But at this point, Americans and not just Iraqis need to be won over. The mere existence of a plan, more so than its actual substance, is encouraging. And encouragement, amidst a lot of discouragement, is I suppose the point.

I find the idea of a 30 page plan somewhat farcical. Does this PDF'd plan exist solely to act as a rebuttal to the Democrat's charge that there isn't a plan?

What's next, will the Democrats come out with a 30 page "New Ideas of the Democratic Party" to rebut the charge that they have no new ideas?

Anyways, I'm reminded of a scene from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine month."

"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anybody or anything."

"But the plans were on display ..."

"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."

"That's the display department."

"With a torch."

"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."

"So had the stairs."

"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"

"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard."