wikistan

sounds like a familiar pattern. Greenspan’s freed up now, perhaps we can get him to crank out a report on this.

I think we handed that responsibility off to the insurgents:

NY Times:
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 4 — Iraqi and American officials say they are seeing a troubling pattern of government corruption enabling the flow of oil money and other funds to the insurgency and threatening to undermine Iraq’s struggling economy.

Heavens, I thought our mission was to secure the oil.

Good thing we’re sacrificing the lives of American soldiers for the cause of “freedom” in the Middle East. They seem so eager to have it. Freedom of the press, religious freedom, the right to bear arms… well, I guess 1 out of 3 ain’t bad.

Oh yes, forgot. Instead of dismissing the Muslim activists for their overreaching response to the cartoons, we should try to understand their angst and their motives for torching buildings. But I ask: why can’t they just draw some cartoons of their own?