Okay...
Yes, it looks like Rumsfeld has finally lost his last bit of touch with reality. "U.S. to rely on Iraqi forces to quell civil war" is the headline. Now, the Iraqi forces are in no small part involved in the civil war, but don't let that intervene.

Seriously, I can see how a civil war in Iraq could even be to the United States' advantage, but I would really like to know that we're doing our foreign policy on purpose rather than by accident, and that we have something resembling a sane operational plan for how to protect our own people there when the shit hits the industrial-sized fan.

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Faith-based organizations
Well, it looks like some faith-based organizations are being extremely active in continued earthquake relief in Pakistan. Miltant Islamists, in particular. (Has our government really thought this whole faith-based routine through? cf. on Tuesday, the President ordered DHS to create a faith-based division. No word yet on which faiths will be invited to participate.)

(And the article cited suggests that "there is hope that [these] groups... are trading the mantle of militancy for social work." I'm not really sure why they think that radical groups engaging in social work means they're going to stop killing people; Hamas has been running schools and hospitals for years, in parallel with suicide bombing campaigns, and they're far from the only ones)

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And now, some good news.
There is liquid water on Saturn's moon Enceladus.

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