Michael O'Hanlon, expert on everything and embarrassment to foreign policy professionals everywhere, regularly pumps out vacuous op-eds on the pages of, well, every major paper you can think of. His latest Washington Times gem, though, is particularly special, and includes this treasure:
The Iraqi Security Forces are surely better than before. But with memories of Iraq's intense civil war of 2006 and early 2007 still very fresh, it is doubtful they have gone far enough towards establishing national rather than sectarian loyalties.
That's a relief! I was worried that the past few days demonstrated the continuation and complication of an internal civil war, but apparently it's just a few little aftershocks of that ugly civil war that ended a year ago.
He also says we should send "at least modest numbers of American troops southward" into Basra. Not sure which side he wants us to take in that civil war . . . I mean, post-conflict zone.
