The Financial Times is the latest source of information that Iran may be assisting al Qaeda in Iraq. In this case it is by turning a blind eye to al Qaeda activities on Iranian soil and--despite their sectarian antagonism--are giving the Sunni terrorists a safe haven before they return to Iraq.
I am going to start something of a drumbeat about the Iraq War now, pointing out the myriad ways it is inextricably part of the world war on terror. Al Qaeda operatives certainly understand the reality and, beleaguered though they are in Iraq, count on American fickleness and impatience to help them snatch a victory out of the jaws of defeat. The media and the Democrats in Congress--and now some Republicans--seem determined to assist them.
The lead news lately is that support for the war effort is waning in the U.S., while buried in the news are reports that the Surge is working in Iraq.
The grim fact we have to face is that we are up against both Iraq and Iran (and Iran's surrogates). The President has known this from the start, but the media and a large share of the public are still in denial. They think if we just bring home the troops, or tuck them away somewhere on the border of the fighting, the terrorist challenge to us will dissipate.
Somehow.