Cynics have described the editorialist’s mission as rushing in after the battle to stab the wounded.

It may sometimes seem so. But not this week, not with this editorial.

Our mission here is to commend the combatants in Yamhill County’s Riverbend Landfill expansion battle for a fight well and bravely fought, with honor and wisdom — and to hope for more of the same when the hostilities are renewed, as they inevitably will be after the current truce is lifted.