Via Yglesias, ex-friend Jason Zengerle writes:

There’s no denying that liberals who once derided Maliki as a Bush administration stooge are now touting him as the authentic and sovereign voice of the Iraqi people; but conservatives are doing their own flip-flop as well.

Forgive me, but that’s the sort of thing you only write when you pay as little attention to the actually-existing Iraq debate as possible. It would have been helpful if Jason provided, like, links to the liberals he’s calling inconsistent, because what I’ve seen liberals write — and what I’ve written — is that Maliki’s reversal is his solution to a set of political binds that his puppetry placed on him. No one’s pretending he’s suddenly a tribune of the Iraqi people — although he is now entirely in line with mainstream Iraqi anti-occupation sentiment. Remember, kids: do some research before you snark.

Update: It’s like he wants to miss the point.