CRYSTAL BALL. It's not often that you get a very clear glimpse of the future so, when you do get it, you should pay attention to it. Now, assuming that the McGyver Solution to the Iraq debacle proves ineffective -- watch Jim Baker make a peace plan out of two paper clips and a flashlight! -- and that, one day, C-Plus Augustus will stop listening to Henry Kissinger talking about the importance of "will" (something I had hoped I would never see again in my lifetime and a concept that the president probably should bounce off his hosts in Vietnam this week just for fun), blame is going to get parceled out pretty thickly. So, in case you folks in the media elite were wondering whether or not all that early cheerleading was going to be enough to immunize y'all, you can stop wondering. It's not.
--Charles P. Pierce
