Ruby Red is aptly named and turning up everywhere the past couple of days.

Forget her. I read somewhere (probably in the comments to a previous BC post) the suggestion that India make an immediate and substantial commitment to the Afghan theater and thereby force Islamabad get serious about Waziristan. I’d rather see that than nuclear war in South Asia, though the latter looks more inevitable all the time. One of the things I’m thankful for these days is the fact the only nukes in this hemisphere are ours.

NahnCee – I had exactly the same reaction to seeing General Petraeus’s name attached to Obama’s plan. It has Fall Guy written all over it. Does anyone really believe the incoming CIC 1)has changed his assessment of the surge, and 2) has the maturity/humility/insight to separate his political embarrassment over the one thing he’s been manifestly wrong about from the man who made it happen?