Well, well. Reports are that petulant Islamo-brat Sadr will ‘accept’ UN troops. Excuse me? “Accept”? Who’s running Iraq, anyway?

This is yet another in an endless string of reasons why it’s stupid, stupid, stupid to coddle infantile proto-tyrants like this pup. Cease fire? Sure, give him some time to regroup and recruit. I love mypetjawa’s take on this:

Fool me once: shame on you. Fool me twice: shame on me. Fool me forty-seven times: business as usual at the State Department.

The message to Sadr and his ilk is clear enough: Cause enough trouble, throw enough temper tantrums, threaten to break enough “important” sites, and generally rouse enough rabble, and you’ll (sooner or later) be rewarded with news coverage, then attributed with “influence”, and eventually you might get to run your own fiefdom. Yeah, that’s how to fight terrorism.

Anyway, the always-clueless-but-never-in-doubt Time magazine tries to tell us that it’s all about Sadr’s unexpected political power. You can just tell the writer’s fingers were just itching to throw in a few ‘quagmire’s, just for old time’s sake.

But the only reason Sadr is still a problem is because Sadr is not dead or captured (yet). Here’s hoping the situation is rectified before it gets further rectum-fied.