JUAN COLE, in his commentary today, Al-Hakim to ash-Sharq al-Awsat: Saddam must be Tried in Iraq included this veritable gem at the very end:
…Bremer is reportedly worried that the IGC is not moving toward those elections fast enough to meet the July 1 deadline for turn-over of sovereignty to a transitional government, and is requesting a doubling of CPA employees to 2,000. The State Department, however, does not have another 1,000 Middle East experts, and many of the ones it has are being vetoed by Undersecretary of Defense for Planning, Douglas Feith, on grounds of their lack of sympathy for Neoconservative philosophy.
Upon reading this paragraph, I visualized Doug Feith–playing the lead role of Mickey Mouse in Disney’s cartoon “The Sorceror’s Apprentice”– having to resort to exponentially increasing neocon Middle East experts like Daniel Pipes the same way: by repeatedly chopping the expert in half again and again until he has enough loyal bucket-carrying brooms to bail the Administration out. But what happens if the Sorcerer doesn’t arrive in time; do all the neocon mice drown in the floods they have created?