This week in the saga

The war is won enough to be counted, so the war moves home. Tuesday the oil is flowing like never before and the credit goes to the military. Wednesday a citizen held since the last administration is allowed to leave, and the gesture is accepted. Friday the pool is drained to repair the slash. Friday night he goes on television to say the election system is dangerously exposed, and declassifies the papers to prove it — a foreign power, he says, has taken two hundred and twenty million voter files. And Monday, the standing order: every American soldier killed will be paid for many times over.