The Mideast quagmire

MANIFESTO

The news isn't real good from the region the Bushies forgot. Viz.,

The senior U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Army General Stanley McChrystal, says in a confidential assessment of the war that without additional forces and a new strategy, the mission "will likely result in failure".

Now if someone could just figure out what, exactly, the mission is in the poppy capital of the world, this story might make some sense.

And, lest we forget,

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is again highlighting his denial of the Holocaust, saying the anger his comments provoke is a source of pride.

In other words, he's proud of his idiocy.

I'm not sure the progression toward democracy is working out too well on the other side of the world.