PIZZA HUT AND BURGER KING ARE OPERATING IN BASRA, which is sure to upset, well, the people you’d expect.

Prediction: Soon the complaints will shift from “Iraqis are starving because of American actions,” to “Iraqis are getting fat because of American actions.” There will be no intermediate, “just right” phase, either.

Yeah, I know — this is just on bases now. But for how long?