Tuesday, May 04, 2004
Good news from Iraq: the Shiite cleric leadership is urging Sadr to cease and desist and withdraw from Najaf and Karbala. This has been well-played by the coalition, which has avoided actions that would let this egomaniac further his pretensions of being a modern prophet. Now he just looks like an irresponsible hothead who risked Shiite holy places to further his own narrow ambitions. If we continue the pressure - and leak details of the indictment against him - we could truly reduce him to insignificance and maybe to a position where he can be quietly arrested.
