Plaid is the New Plaid

Charles Krauthammer takes a look at Iraq and decides what it really needs are some Sunni strongmen to put down the "Shiite extremists". I know a guy who fits that description - oh wait, I think he was executed last year. Look, spreading democracy to Iraq is really important! It's way too important to be left to the people of Iraq and the men and women they voted for.

In fairness, he has been arguing for us to topple Maliki for at least a year; instead we should "change the composition of the government and assemble a new one composed of those -- Kurds, moderate Sunnis, secular Shiites and some of the religious Shiites -- who might be capable of reaching a grand political settlement."

PS - Best quote of the piece: "A sample of the countries that have chosen this absurd form of democracy -- Italy, Israel and Weimar Germany -- gives you an idea of the balkanized, unstable politics that party-list systems inevitably produce." I'm not one to just throw around charges of antisemitism like some other people but I was more than a little uncomfortable hearing an American lecture Israel on what constitutes an absurd and unstable democracy.