If You Want Something Done Right...

You do it yourself. Right? Well, maybe not in the case of Iraq, because Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki already tried disbanding the Mahdi Army with his own troops and that didn't seem to work out very well, as I recall. So...presumably he's going to go whining to Uncle Sam to do it for him, assuming that Moqtada Sadr won't oblige out of hand. That means the Surge will have to ReSurge, and fighting a serious Shi'ite army without Iran to pull our chestnuts out of the fire for us is going to be tricky, at best, and disastrous at worst. But no doubt we'll try, because it's not like the Emperor thinks that war is romantic enough for him to actually sign up to walk point.