Via Yglesias, I give O'Hanlon credit, he has stopped fibbing about being a "Iraq war and Surge critic." And he does so in an appropriate venue, National Review, where he becomes an open apologist for General Petraeus:

For those reading this after watching General David Petraeus’s Monday testimony, I strongly suspect that my main argument will have become apparent to many: General Petraeus is a straight shooter who does not and will not cook the books. . . . Some of Petraeus’s critics will argue, as they already have, that he wrote an oped in the fall of 2004 that was too optimistic about the training of Iraqi Security Forces then — and too closely timed to the American elections that November. To them, that suggests he was and is acting as an agent of White House spin. That oped may in retrospect have been somewhat too optimistic. . . . However, a possible misjudgment on this matter hardly shows Petraeus to be a spinmeister. If anything, it shows him to be human. . . .

Sure, O'Hanlon, sure. I see "Fox news analyst Michael O'Hanlon" in your future.