Moqtada's Triumphal Return

Here's a disconcerting story from Iraq the Model, via Pajamas Media:

After more than 14 weeks in hiding in Iran, Moqtada al-Sadr returned to Iraq last week. The question before Iraq now is, “Has he returned from Iran stronger than he was before he left?”

Omar, Iraq the Model's blogger, answers his own question:

Given the combination of SIIC leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim’s [wiki] absence from the Shia political scene, the training Sadr received in Iran, and the timing Tehran chose for his return, Moqtada al-Sadr has obviously returned strong. Strong enough to summon seven Iraqi governors to meet him and listen to his instructions about how they should run their respective provinces in central and southern Iraq at the same time his militiamen were fighting the police forces of at least one of those provinces.

After a pretty good description of what all of this signifies, Omar reaches a most unpleasant conclusion:

Sadr is not simply an outlaw; he represents Iran’s project in Iraq just like Hamas and Nasrallah represent it in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon. These are the three arms of Iran in the Middle East that have worked consistently to ruin every emerging democratic project. And these arms must be cut off sooner rather than later.

One thing that seems lost on the MSM is just how much the Islamofascists, of all flavors, have learned from the tactics of Hitler and Stalin. Negotiation with these types is useless, as all one can do is negotiate the precise terms of one's surrender to these thugs. All forms of civil reasoning are lost on people like this who are essentially totalitarian thugs. In the end, the only thing you can do is whack them. That's the only thing they understand, and that's what they already intend to do to us.

Why the U.S. and the UK did not put Sadr down when they had the chance remains one of the great mysteries of the current war. Omar's final sentence above, I'm afraid, constitutes the truth of the matter. Read the rest of Omar's report here.