THE SADR REVOLT SEEMS OVERRATED:

As a fighting force, Sadr’s militia impressed neither U.S. commanders nor the Iraqi officers at one police station they occupied for three hours.

“Mahdi Army! They’re not an army!” Officer Haider Raheem said of the unemployed young men who took over one station by brandishing grenades. “They’re a bunch of looters.” Before running off at the sound of approaching tanks, Raheem said, they scooped up everything from rifles to food for the prisoners. “Can you believe they even stole the water cup from the restroom?” he said.

Andrew Sullivan notes that Zeyad has updated his earlier post, and observes: “No, this is not a quagmire. It’s the brightest opportunity for real change in the world since the end of the Cold War. We have to seize it.”

UPDATE: It’s still going on, though, as of Tuesday afternoon.