What? No "Heh"?

Yesterday, Putz was so happy with Damien Cave's story on Baghdad that he airily declared that the paper owed David Petraeus an apology.

Today, he writes:

SOME CONTEXT ON THE SURGE, from Damien Cave.

You'll notice he's a tad less sanguine, which suggests he actually read the Q&A in question. Here's what Cave says, since Putz doesn't seem like excerpting:

-- The current period of peace is "the calm before the storm."

-- "Nothing tangible" has come of reconciliation talks between the Sunnis and Kurds.

-- "American commanders have said that they are aggressively negotiating with Sadr officials to help keep his militia, the Mahdi Army, in check. But if the cease-fire ends, if Mr. Sadr’s whims shift, that could push violence up again — no matter how many troops are here."

-- "Among many Iraqis, especially Shiites, there is still a lot of frustration with the American presence — which feels to them like an occupation."

As a wise man once put it (albeit crudely and with a disturbing lack of civility), "Let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet."