This reads like a game of telephone gone awry -- or perhaps something a bit different. Kondracke's Plan B, "unleash the Shiites," or the 80% Solution, is an idea that was advocated internally to the administration last fall chiefly by the Office of the Vice President. It's worth considering that Cheney may want to reinforce just such a message on his current trip to Saudi Arabia and the region, that if the Saudis, Egyptians and Jordanians can't lean on their Sunni brethren in Iraq to make the Iraq gov't of national reconciliation a go, the alternative could be worse for them. Is Kondracke part of the effort to deliver that message, as it were?

Posted by Laura at May 11, 2007 09:52 PM