YUP, IT'S A NEO-CON PAPER

As Chris Matthews once said, the WaPo is a neo-con, not a liberal paper. Today's editorial about Maliki & Basra is a disgraceful portrait of neo-con propaganda. Here's the concluding sentence:

But the fact that an Iraqi government commonly described as impotent and inert now is willing and able to fight Shiite militias is a step in the right direction.

It's not "willing and able" - the militias are not only better-armed, they have much higher morale than the government's soldiers.