Damning with faint praise

The LAT's lead front page story today concerns the reduction in civilian deaths in Iraq in the last 60 days. The LAT acknowledges that "the surge" may have contributed to the decrease but highlights other factors, one of which, the LAT says, is that the sectarian fighting has accomplished it's goal: the separation of Sunnis and Shias. According to that analysis, it seems the "civil war" is over.