It’s already beginning, folks. But, my friend Jeremy Lott quickly and ably bats away the revisionists in today’s Politico.

In a Newsweek cover story titled “What Bush Got Right,” international editor Fareed Zakaria wrote that “blanket criticism of Bush misses an important reality,” for “wherever one stands” on his decision to invade Iraq, “the [Bush administration’s] foreign policies in place now are more sensible, moderate and mainstream. In many cases, the next president should follow rather than reverse them.”

The military historian Edward Luttwak wrote in the British Prospect, “That George W. Bush’s foreign policy has been a total failure is now taken for granted by so many people that one usually hears it stated as a simple truth that need not be argued at all.” He proceeded to contest that truth, labeling Bush a modern Harry S. Truman, likely to be vindicated by history.

Luttwak suggested that the “costly Iraq war must … be recognized as a sideshow in the Bush global counteroffensive against Islamist militancy, just as the far more costly Korean War was a sideshow to global Cold War containment.” The point is that the America-led “ideological war … has ended with a spectacular global victory for President Bush.”

Wrong. Wrong. Wrong

Exactly.