Is it possible that one moment, shown in one picture, could turn around public perception about the Iraq War? I don't think so. I do think though, that if that picture did exist, it'd be the one shown above. Michael Yon took the picture in Iraq. The picture shows Iraqi Muslims and Christians alike helping to rebuild a church. Here's Yon's caption:

Thanks and Praise: I photographed men and women, both Christians and Muslims, placing a cross atop the St. John’s Church in Baghdad. They had taken the cross from storage and a man washed it before carrying it up to the dome.

A Muslim man had invited the American soldiers from “Chosen” Company 2-12 Cavalry to the church, where I videotaped as Muslims and Christians worked and rejoiced at the reopening of St John’s, an occasion all viewed as a sign of hope.

The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people. ” Thank you, thank you,” the people were saying. One man said, “Thank you for peace.” Another man, a Muslim, said “All the people, all the people in Iraq, Muslim and Christian, is brother.” The men and women were holding bells, and for the first time in memory freedom rang over the ravaged land between two rivers.

Is this a huge change? Absolutely. Just months ago, Sunni and Shia were fighting a bloody civil war, reconciliation seemed impossible, and military progress was stagnant at best. Since the surge, Sunni militias have joined with American forces to combat al-Qaeda, reconciliation has occurred locally, and our military has made huge gains. Meanwhile, the ringleader of the circus is calling the surge a failure:

Ron Paul and the other anti-war Republicans (Hagel and the like) are joining with the Democrats in ignoring the facts, and pursuing defeat for political gain. Some blogosphere quotes on the events and the Yon photo:

The Anchoress, as quoted by Malkin on the issue:

“What I see in this picture is something more than a historic moment - I don’t even know if that’s what some would call it - I see the sort of thing people do when they are neighbors, when they are working together for their neighborhood, for the good of all who live there, and that to me makes it seem less “historic” than calmly, wonderfully normal, ordinary, sane and wholesome.”

Here's some historic perspective from The Sundries Shack:

This is the photo that I believe should win Michael Yon a Pulitzer Prize. It will, should we not lose out heart, be studied by schoolchildren and seen in documentaries for decades, if not longer. It is the photo that shows the world that Iraq can be, and wants to be, a free nation ruled not by fear and the strongest fist but by the will and desire of the people who call it home.

The Yon photo, and the progress our military is making in Iraq, will never get recognized as it should. The Main Stream Media, the Defeatist Majority, and those that have cast their political hopes alongside the enemy, refuse to change their tune now. This should be an Iwo Jima moment, but it will probably be another ignored sign of victory.