The Triangle of Death seems to be turning into something like the Wedge of Democracy/self-determination that Pres. Bush envisioned Iraq becoming from the beginning of his leadership of the Iraq invasion. Iraq will not be an American client. But it will not be agressively against U.S. interests. Iraq’s immediate concerns are the same as those of the U.S., i.e. keep the oil flowing, resist the Saudi salafists, resist the Iranian version of Shiism, etc.

Wrichard is on a roll:

“About the only thing the Left is confident of beating is the relatively civilized, Bible-clinging, law-abiding soccer mom. So that’s who they’re going to beat up on. Not any Shi’ite militias or Janjaweeds. None of those. What they’ll take on is Sarah Palin or an old geezer who can’t comb his hair.”

The whining outrage of the left brings to mind the words of a famous person:

“Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like? They are like to children sitting in the marketplace, and calling one to another, and saying, We have piped to you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not wept.”

And those children are mad and have had enough of your ignoring them!