Turning Point?

Have we finally reached a turning point in Iraq? In an interview, President Bush, perhaps inadvertently, accepted an analogy between the last few weeks there and the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, often labelled as the turning point for American opinion towards that war. Yesterday Major General William B. Caldwell, a commander in Iraq, made an unusually frank admission that a three-month campaign to lower the violence in Baghdad had failed miserably. And yesterday was particularly awful for American troops, who suffered more casualties than they had in many months. Doree Shafrir in Slate has a useful round-up on what Iraq War bloggers are saying about all this.