The Pew Center for the People and the Press has released results of a new survey—coinciding with the third anniversary of the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom—that finds the American view of the war has turned more negative than just a few months ago. Since last July, consistent majorities of Americans said they believed the US could succeed in building a stable democratic government (55 percent last month, according to the survey). Now, the percent believing success is probable has dropped below half to 49 percent.
Lt. Gen. Stephen L. Davis, the Department of the Air Force’s top internal watchdog, has been nominated to lead Air Force Global Strike Command, which oversees the service’s bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles.