Petralabi

"The key is going to be getting the concerned local citizens — and all the citizens — feeling that this government is reconnected with them," says General David Petraeus to McClatchy. Chalabi "agrees with that."

Right. Chalabi. A finer steward of American and Iraqi interests has never walked the earth. A lot has been made of the foolishness of turning to Chalabi again and again, but given that the plan at this point is to stay in Iraq come hell or high water, we're going to be stuck with an ever-shrinking supply of opportunistic dunderheads willing to do the crucial work there in the first place. That one of these dunderheads is Ahmad Chalabi doesn't surprise me at all.