Monday, June 11, 2007

Good Grief

In our drive to find any solution in the morass that has become Iraq, we are now arming the Sunni militants. Since they have fallen out with Al Qaeda, we are arming them for the fight. The trouble is that this cuts at the heart of a stable Iraqi government. Arming militias responsible to no controls makes no sense when the Iraqis are not able to control their own country. We are so desperate to make 'progress' we will make this Faustian compact. It will surely come back to haunt us. The full story is here.

Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson is fast becoming the latest fad in a Republican search for anybody else. The parallels to last years adoption by the Democrats of general Wesley Clark comes to mind. But the more you look the less there is, this is a candidate headed no where. George Will, the undisputed best of the Republican pundits, has a great piece on him. At the very least he seems to have no common sense, doing an ad for a credit shark, written up by the LA Times (subscription required).