The worse it gets, the better we're doing

No matter how bad it gets, the stuck-in-the-mud wingnuts claim that's a sign things are getting better:

Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol said on Fox News this morning that the recent surge in Iraqi violence is a sign that the extremists are “worried.” Kristol said, “If I were a Sunni extremist and was worried, which I would be, about a doubling of U.S. forces in Baghdad, what would I do? I would try to convey an impression of chaos.”

He added, “On the whole over the last two weeks, some of the news for Iraq is slightly optimistic.”

Yeah, and if the sun suddenly exploded, that would be a sign that the rapture was upon us.