The Hillarity and Barren Show

The quality of an opinion can very often be judged by its predictive power.

'On the political front, Sadr now finds himself completely isolated. Key leaders of his own movement are now urging him to accept the Maliki government’s demands to disband the militia entirely.

Saturday, Iraq’s president and two vice-presidents, along with every other major political group in Iraq (except the Sadrists) joined in the condemnation of Sadr’s militia, and endorsed Prime Minister Maliki’s demand that the militia disarm. Sadr’s militia is now virtually the only militia left in Iraq that still maintains an outlaw posture, the only one that still challenges the authority of the Iraqi Security Forces or the Coalition.'
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZDhhNTEzNzdkYmY4ZWY3Njg1NWYxOGQ3MjQ4ZGM2ZDA=

Either Hillarity Clinton (who looked and sounded almost dead during her 'questions' to Gen Petraeus) and Barren Obama understand virtually nothing about the conflict in Iraq, the major foreign policy issue of 2008 and the preceding five years; or they are cynically promising to their potential electors things which they have no intention of doing. Either way, neither is fit to be President. At one point in her 'questioning' of Gen Petraeus (it was actually just a long, boring statement of her own rediculous opinion of the state of play) Hillarity indicated that all her knowledge of Iraq is gleaned from Press Reports. Reading the Washington Post, New York Times and watching CNN is apparently not sufficient to learn the material facts- who'd have thought?

Virtually everything the Democrats have said over the last five years about both Iraq and Afghanistan has proven to be crap. And yet astonishingly, they still swank around verbalising with what looks incredible self-confidence. To be wrong so often, for so long, and yet still remain completely confident in your judgement seems like mental illness. Please win, Mr McCain, please. And if that sounds like a prayer, you're right, it is.

PS. Hillary mentioned the British responsibility for Basra in her borathon. Is the high profile of Basra and the still bouncy presence of JAM there going to hoist into the light of day our terrible sins of omission? I hope so. The British government has a lot to fess up to.