VERY STUPID (BUT SERIOUS) PEOPLE

Ralph Peters just can't adjust to reality. In a USAToday op-ed, he thinks the Sunnis are now our buddies - "Paradoxically, our former enemies, Iraq's Sunni Arab insurgents,.." - despite the fact that 93% of them think it's ok to attack coalition forces. He then calls the Anbar Awakening the "greatest American public diplomacy triumph since the collapse of the Taliban regime in 2001" but neglects to point out how our public diplomacy played any role. Continuing with his cheerleading, Peters writes this counter-factual, "We're not the enemy anymore," when 57% of Iraqis think it's OK to attack coalition forces.

I guess USAToday doesn't do much fact-checking.