Mark Dankof compares Peter Baker's front page story in the Washington Post today on Bush's admission that the United States is "not winning" in Iraq with the new commentaries underscoring this truth penned by Pat Buchanan, Justin Raimondo, and Kevin Zeese.  Mark then begins to explore the meaning and context of a diary he kept in Tehran, Iran in the summer of 1976, entitled "A Summer of a Thousand Nights:  From Tehran to Susa" at <a href="http://www.markdankof.com/a_summer_of_a_thousand_nights_from_tehran_to_susa.htm">http://www.markdankof.com/a_summer_of_a_thousand_nights_from_tehran_to_susa.htm</a>