Current Pipes Piece Will Adjust your Thinking

"The current insurrection in Iraq was discernable a year ago, as I already noted in April 2003" This from PIPES today a must read. This guy is no Democrat, no Kerry snake in the grass.

"Thousands of Iraqi Shiites chanted "?No to America, No to Saddam, Yes to Islam" a few days ago, during pilgrimage rites at the holy city of Karbala. Increasing numbers of Iraqis appear to agree with these sentiments. They have ominous implications for the coalition forces."

A little later, PIPES again

For Muslims, rule by non-Muslims is an abomination, a blasphemous inversion of God's dispensation

Read the entire thing, what he proposes is getting the fuck out of there and leaving a Muslim strong man. I wrote the same thing over a year ago, but Pipes is twice as smart as me and supplies deeper historical meaning. Read it. He is tops.