Our allies to the rescue

Josh Marshall on the on-schedule capture of a prominent Al Queda leader:

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall:

This is just the latest, but perhaps the most blatant, example of how this administration has placed politics and, really, political dirty tricks above national security itself, and along the way persisted in defining political deviance down until tactics we used to associate with banana republics start to seem commonplace here.

And while we’re at it, this is yet another example of how truly important it is that we democratize the Middle East. Because once we have, some of them will be able to come back here and redemocratize us.

Amazing. I was wondering the Pakistanis could pull it off: nice to have some reliable allies.

<update> Although the capture took place in central Pakistan “a few days back,” the announcement came just hours before John Kerry will give his acceptance speech in Boston.