[ReleaseTheHounds]

Good article... One thing I think we may have underestimated: the problems associated with the Iraqis "giving up" so fast. It seems like the Baathists (and other Saddamites) just went back into hiding among the common folk with the plan of keeping their threat in place but in hiding and attacking Coalition forces in these post-war skirmishes. Glad to see the Coalition responding now with vigorous attacks. Hopefully this Ace of Diamonds will be "persuaded" to give up some intel that will lead to Saddam and the WMDs -- this is when we need the Turks (as in "persuading")!

[gcruse]

Provided that one is American, and the other is Brit.

Ain't gonna happen.  Labour is in too much turmoil
over the Iraqi war. Britain, and by extension the rest
of the anglosphere, won't be following us into the next
pre-emption short of discovering an A-bomb in Basra.
Any anti-Iran, anti-Syria, or anti-JucheFruit actions
will come from the US alone, to a background cacophony
of international condemnation.

The same PC that prevents us from searching airports
for terrorists instead of for weapons pretty much precludes
any more unprovoked aggression.  [Yes, I know.  But in the
absence of a smoking gun, unilaterally attacking Iraq was unprovoked.]

Political correctness is, you must see, a suicide pact.
And the self-destructive Panglossity that is our generation's
version of appeasement  would have invented PC anew
had it not already been foisted on us.  Getting rid of it requires
one more large scale terrorist attack on the US.  While it
may bring the death of liberty, it will also ring in PC's twilight.