60 Minutes Interview Shows Gen.Abizaid in Denial

Doublespeak:

"So, aren't we already at a war with Iran through its proxies in Iraq?" Logan asks.

"No. We're not at war with Iran through its proxies. We are in a period of making it clear to the Iranians that they need to move to help stabilize Iraq and not destabilize it," Abizaid says.

Say What?!:

But there's no doubt that Shia militias, not necessarily operating on the orders of Iran, look. I am not defending Iranian actions inside Iraq. And I say it is a mixed signal that comes from Iran," Abizaid explains. "Iran operates in very, very different levels in very different ways. But I believe that there are people within the Iranian government, especially those that are very much encumbered by this revolutionary idea of expansion and supporting the various movements inside Iraq that are splinter movements, that they would prefer to see a southern Lebanon-like solution to Iraq, where they can control the militia and have a weak central government as opposed to have a strong central government emerge. No doubt that Iran is playing a very unhelpful role in Iraq, in southern Lebanon."

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Another election in Latin America, another leftist government. So much for NAFTA and free trade:

A leftist nationalist who is friendly with Venezuela's anti-U.S. president held a commanding lead over a Bible-toting banana tycoon in Sunday's runoff presidential election in Ecuador, according to an unofficial quick count of sample votes.[...]If Correa wins, it could further tilt South America to the left, joining left-leaning governments in Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela. Correa is an outspoken admirer of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.