Military buffs (regardless of their stance on the Iraq war) should take care not to drink anything while reading this prediction of apocalypse from none other than everyone's favorite boat captain, Gary Hart, lest they risk blowing it out their nose from laughter:

Recently one of Islamic Shi'ites' most revered sites, the golden mosque at Samarra, was destroyed by sectarian enemies. By this act and the reprisals that followed, Iraq moved a substantial step closer to civil war. Though a remote, but real, possibility, an Iraqi civil war could cost the United States its army.

Yup, you heard right folks, not a squad, not a platoon, not a brigade, but the whole frigging army. Gone. Poof. No more. Cease to be. To become, as they say, an "ex-army". You know, the one with all the tanks, jets, missles, smart bombs, APCs, and machine guns? The one with command and control so sophisticated and expensive the natives think it's flat magic? Lost to a bunch of loosely controlled mobs with AK-47s and RPGs?

The comments are an even bigger scream. Does anyone on the fringe left know anything about how a modern army works? What it's vulnerable to? What its strengths are? Here's a hint: it ain't hajji popping up behind a Toyota spanging an RPG off an Abrams. It ain't a hundred of them. Or a thousand.

Personally, I'm with Jason, the guy has simply lost his mind.