Heh ™

Like I said, there's a time for snark, and few are better at recognizing that time than Matt Yglesias, as in this response to a particularly idiotic offering from Glenn Reynolds. I'll just steal enough to hopefully inspire you to go look at the whole thing.

How silly we all were to think Moqtada would lead an uprising against the US, when really we "won" against him by agreeing to drop the criminal charges against him that started the conflict in the first place and let him set up a political party....Now needless to say, Muqtada still might lose in elections to either of the two major anti-American, pro-Iranian alternative political parties out there, so there's still a lot up in the air.

While you're there, you might leave a word of comfort for Matt, who lost his mom a couple days ago. She was my age, which is far, far too young to go, and he's displayed maturity far beyond his years in dealing with the loss. Condolences from here...