An article biased to the "neocon" point of view (i.e. things are going well--we are winning The war: in Iraq, against al-Qaida, and "on terror"). If as this article says:"It's pretty clear that the U.S. has won its war", then we should be able to begin large scale redeployment--but for some reason that is not happening. This article cites many things but does not source any of them.

This story provides useful information about an important international security issue that is under-covered by the mainstream media. Although IBD classifies this as general news, it has a point of view and comes to a conclusion. In the last three paragraphs especially it reads more like an opinion piece than general news. However, even though it is a short article, it lists several significant facts, and also documents and quantifies the reduced news coverage in 2008.