Has Charles Krauthammer been reading protein wisdom’s posts? Well, of course not (he’s Charles Krauthammer, after all!). Still, ‘tseems he’s been keepin’ tabs on the Arab street his own self. From Time:

Look around. The Arab street is deathly quiet. The mobs, exultant on Sept. 11 and braying for American blood, have gone home. There are no recruits headed to Afghanistan to fight the infidel. The old recruits, battered and beaten and terrified, are desperately trying to sneak their way out of Afghanistan.

The reason is simple. We won. Crushingly. Astonishingly. Destroying a regime 7,000 miles away, landlocked and almost inaccessible, in nine weeks.

Damn right. Now tell the Arab street to fetch me some grapes…

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