Teribus--


Well, let's take a look at your track record, shall we?


1) Propaganda campaign--never able, in over a year of pathetic attempts, to find even one clear quote to contradict the Bush regime's propaganda campaign, acknowledged by the vast majority of sentient English speakers.

2) Negotiations--while you insisted there were no parties with whom the Maliki government could negotiate, that government is indeed doing so. I expected negotiations would have to wait til the end of the "surge" but in fact they are going on now. You told us nobody could negotiate--since the other parties were lying murdering scum. Wrong.


3) Sunnis--"deserve no consideration". Dead wrong. As Amos has pointed out, one of the few promising developments now in Iraq is negotiations between the Maliki government and Sunnis--including Sunni militants--with an eye to driving al Qaeda--foreign agitators--out of Iraq. Your approach would have driven Sunnis into the arms of al Qaeda. Brilliant.

4) the "chain of command" of Sadr's "army". As I pointed out several months ago, you have mistaken al Sadr's "army" for the Royal Navy. We now see, as I noted earlier, even more armed struggle within this "army"--with more splinter groups.

"Chain of command"? Not likely.

If I didn't know you were a highly respected foreign policy analyst, I might think you were in fact a clueless Western military fossil, who can't understand anything unless it fits snugly into the Western military model you know. Good thing we know that's not so.