Repetition of History Moves Beyond 'Farce' to 'Sitcom'

 Feel the Surge!! 

With the four-month-old increase in American troops showing only modest success in curbing insurgent attacks, American commanders are turning to another strategy that they acknowledge is fraught with risk: arming Sunni Arab groups that have promised to fight militants linked with Al Qaeda who have been their allies in the past.

We cannot think of a single thing that could possibly go wrong with this plan to arm militant Sunni separatists. 

 U.S. Arming Sunnis in Iraq to Battle Old Qaeda Allies [NYT]