WANTED: ADULT SUPERVISION….From Al Kamen’s column:

This just in from the Green Zone in Baghdad: The hot new polo shirt in the zone is white with a diplomatic security badge on it and stitching below that says “Resistance Is Futile.”

Good God. This sort of triumphal jackassery is straight out of warbloggerdom circa March 2003, back when the 101st Fighting Keyboarders were certain we’d whip those pesky Baathist ragheads into line ASAP and then march home in victory. If this is really the hot new thing in the Green Zone, it’s no wonder we’re losing.

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