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Our informed visitors know that, according to Andrew Sullivan and others, the catastrophe in Iraq is actually a good thing, because the American presence there acts like "flypaper" to terrorists, thereby keeping America safer.

Time to admit it: Sullivan was right. And it looks like we've found a flypaper "best buy."

AFTER the 6:10 a.m. attack, a shaken-looking Paul Wolfowitz, the visiting deputy defense secretary, said the attack would not deter the United States in its mission to transform Iraq.

Maybe Cheney should go next? After all, didn't his boss famously say, "If some tinhorn terrorist wants me, tell him to come and get me! I'll be at home! Waiting for the bastard!"?

Despite the demonstrated validity of the flypaper theory, however, something tells me we're going to go back to buying generic from now on--"other priorities" and all that. Besides, Kuwait City is lovely this time of year...