Working wonders

I think US diplomacy's actually been quite good.

--Bill Kristol, July 24, 2006

Hundreds of thousands of Shiites chanting "Death to Israel" and "Death to America" marched through the streets of Baghdad's biggest Shiite district Friday in a show of support for Hezbollah militants battling Israeli troops in Lebanon.

-- Iraqi Shiites chant 'Death to Israel', AP,
Aug. 4, 2006.

I have to wonder what manner of occurance would finally force neo-cons like Kristol to recognise what a spectacularly dangerous debacle their experiment in "benevolent global hegemony" has actually become.