[Enchante]

As our columnist Barry Rubin suggests today, a significant message from General David Petraeus's testimony in Washington is that the Baker-Hamilton report had it exactly backward. Teheran and Damascus do not, as the bipartisan report claimed, share an interest in a stable Iraq, nor can any development in Israeli-Palestinian relations make more them more cooperative. Rather, as Rubin puts it, "Petraeus tells the tough truth: Iranian imperialism is at war with America and has no interest in any compromise solution."

[ex-Texan]

*BUMP* !