Speechless

I literally do not know what to say to this story:

The United States, Iran and Iraq have agreed to set up a security subcommittee to carry forward talks on restoring stability in Iraq, the U.S. envoy said Tuesday at the end of a second round of groundbreaking talks with his Iranian counterpart.

"We discussed ways forward, and one of the issues we discussed was the formation of a security subcommittee that would address at a expert or technical level some issues relating to security, be that support for violent militias, al-Qaida or border security," Ambassador Ryan Crocker said after the meeting that included lunch and spanned nearly seven hours. [emphases added]

Oh, yes, by all means, let's enlist the assistance of the regime fueling the insurgency and hosting, sponsoring, and supplying al Qaeda to "restore stability" to Iraq and help "fight al Qaeda".

And what is the mullahs' suggested remedy for "the violence" in Iraq?

In Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said Iraqi independence and an end to the U.S. troop presence were central to ending violence in Iraq, state media reported.

"American officials would rather find their own solution to a problem of their own creation than agree to Iran's realistic approach," Hosseini was quoted as saying by the Web site of the state broadcasting company.

Yep - the best way to establish security in Iraq is for the U.S. to abandon it to the terrorists, and the regimes sponsoring them. Tell me again why we're bothering with this foolishness?

Good God. This is a foreign policy angle worthy of a Democrat administration. No wonder Dick Cheney blew his stack last week.

If, in fact, he did. Stories like this make that beacon of hope look like a pathetic flicker indeed.

UPDATE: Thomas Sowell asks, "Is America today the France of yesterday?"

UPDATE II: Take a gander at the enemy's terms of our surrender (via Allahpundit):

Once the majority of American troops have left, the alliance plans to throw out the constitution, dissolve the parliament, cancel all resolutions issued from the Bremer era on, and disband the existing security forces and U.S.-trained Iraqi army divisions. The U.S. embassy in Baghdad, they said, would have to close — “as in Saigon. With helicopters on the roof” said Samarai — until Washington recognized a new, resistance-led Iraqi governing council, and offered compensation to all individuals and organizations affected by the war. Under the new leadership, all Iraqi citizens who worked for or cooperated with the current, coalition-backed government would be arrested. A “reconciliation council”, drawn in large part from the ranks of the armed insurgency, would then draw up plans for a permanent “technocratic” government — which would immediately seek criminal charges and file civil suits against the U.S. government and major American war supporters in international court.

Doesn't sound like much of a "compromise," does it?

Well, to everyone but Barack Obama and friends, anyway.