...but this from Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points Memo makes interesting reading, if you find prognostication interesting, that is.

One of the nasty ironies of the current situation is how bad news for Team Bush can't unfortunately feel like good news for the rest of us. There ought to be some pleasure to be had in the fact that Cheney's assurances to his boss -- viz., that Saddam would fold faster than Superman on laundry day* -- are not being borne out tidily by events.

But, of course, no unmasking of the arrogance and folly of the administration's war fever is worth more people on both sides dying. As was recently said over on MetaFilter, "sometimes there is more to be held onto than well-worn schadenfreude." The failure of the hawks' grand design would, now, it appears, have effects worse than that long-term damage which would accompany its unqualified success. Not to mention the small fact that every day of this war, simply put, kills people.

Kee-rist.

*phrase per B. Simpson.