I believe we can expect many, many more of these stories as McBush prepares his legacy. There is supposed to be outrage, though the US supplied Afghanis in their struggle against the Russians, the Chinese and Russians supplied the Vietnamese, the US pays for the Israeli ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, et cetera and so on, ad infinitum. If this is true, not likely given the source, it can be expected by adults, and one doesn't fight everyone, everywhere. In fact, MacArthur was sacked this date in 1951 for wanting to expand the Chinese and Russian support of North Korea into a nuclear world war.

"Spokesman says fighters learning to assemble EFP roadside bombs."

Has anyone wondered why the stories demonizing North Korea have disappeared? I believe the US people aren't being prepared for a strike against them any more, now that they have a nuclear weapon or two and forced McBush into sanity and negotiations.

The drums of war they are a-beatin' for the American people. McBush hasn't screwed things up badly enough in the Middle East, he wants to expand his horizons, and there's a new low just over the border. This CinC does not have a good record. By American Conservative business standards he deserves a bonus.

An interesting commentary on the realpolitick (WARNING - written by a very bright MIT linguistics professor):

Unsurprisingly, George W. Bush's announcement of a "surge" in Iraq came despite the firm opposition to any such move of Americans and the even stronger opposition of the (thoroughly irrelevant) Iraqis. It was accompanied by ominous official leaks and statements -- from Washington and Baghdad -- about how Iranian intervention in Iraq was aimed at disrupting our mission to gain victory, an aim which is (by definition) noble."

Arf