Sy Hersh tonight

At the Walton Arts Center. Here's his latest New Yorker piece. He reports a possible scenario for a U.S. exit strategy for Iraq. His sources tell him the White House may shift the burden for fighting the insurgency to Iraqi forces on the ground with U.S. air support. The Air Force is wary of trusting Iraqis to select targets for airstrikes. He also includes some stuff about W being divorced from reality:

Bush’s closest advisers have long been aware of the religious nature of his policy commitments. In recent interviews, one former senior official, who served in Bush’s first term, spoke extensively about the connection between the President’s religious faith and his view of the war in Iraq. After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the former official said, he was told that Bush felt that “God put me here” to deal with the war on terror. The President’s belief was fortified by the Republican sweep in the 2002 congressional elections; Bush saw the victory as a purposeful message from God that “he’s the man,” the former official said. Publicly, Bush depicted his reëlection as a referendum on the war; privately, he spoke of it as another manifestation of divine purpose.
The former senior official said that after the election he made a lengthy inspection visit to Iraq and reported his findings to Bush in the White House: “I said to the President, ‘We’re not winning the war.’ And he asked, ‘Are we losing?’ I said, ‘Not yet.’” The President, he said, “appeared displeased” with that answer. “I tried to tell him,” the former senior official said. “And he couldn’t hear it.”

Where's Colin Powell when we need him?