Perhaps We Won the War and Just Missed It

Think about this sentence for a minute, spoken by Tony Snow on Face the Nation yesterday (it's part of this TPM clip):

As far as how or when or where you achieve a benchmark that's impossible for anybody to say.

Now, for years I've thought BushCo doesn't use enough foresight, but given quotes like that and all the talk about Iraq being the new Korea (since the Vietnam analogy isn't their favorite, although no one's saying who gets to be Iraq's Kim Jong-Il), it seems the White House is thinking a good seven generations into the future on something.