Bill Kristol's New York Times column this week is on this election's real fairy tale: The Democratic idea that the surge would do nothing to change things in Iraq, that the surge is not responsible for the positive changes that have occurred in Iraq since the surge began, and that the appropriate way to follow up on those positive changes that the surge had nothing to do with is to stop the surge and began withdrawing troops from Iraq regardless of the security situation there. Not to mention the fairy tale that the Democrats won't have to face blowback in November 2008 for attempting to derail a policy, then denying its success, then arguing that its success is actually the result of Democratic political rhetoric. Also on the Times's website, I argue here that polling data suggest 2008 is still a national security election, stories to the contrary notwithstanding.