Along these same lines, some bright blogger—I can't, alas, produce a citation—suggested recently, anent the manhandling of our immolated mercenaries last month, that perhaps the deposed president's "tough love" administrative practices, so deplored at the time on these shores, was necessary to keep his depraved and savage subjects in line, and that our best course now might be to apologize, dust him off and re-install him in the office he graced with such distinction for a quarter century, having first secured his promise not in future to invade his neighbors unless to further our strategic objectives, and only then with the personal permission of the Vice President or the Secretary of Defense.
A stretch, true, but a more plausible solution to this mess than President Chalabi.
cordially,