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When Michael E. O‘Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack returned from Iraq they wrote in the „International Herald Tribune“ on July 30 (1): „The political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over four years lost almost all credibility.“ Then, one more sentence: „Yet now the administration‘s critics, in part as a result, seem unaware of the significant changes taking place.“ Then, the clue about the fact, that the political debate in Washington is surreal and the Bush administration has lost almost all credibility over the past four years: „Here is the most important thing Americans need to understand: The United States is finally winning in Iraq“. George Orwell´s ficticious O´Brien would have been proud of them. THE BOSNIA OPTION In a memo called „A Bosnia Option For Iraq“ (2) Michael E. O`Hanlon already presented his extrordinary abilities of profound logic. „Paradoxically, the explosion of sectarian violence and the onset of Balkans-style ethnic cleansing in much of Iraq may suggest an avenue toward stability“, O´Hanlon wrote in this „Brookings“ paper, modestly directed to „Potus“, who all mortal people just know as „President of the United States“. And then he used a well-known term by now – „soft partition“. But…