Why Mark Steyn is so good.

He's clear-eyed, , cogent, almost as knowledgeable of history as Winston Churchill, and willing to speak the clear truth, which is sadly pretty rare these days:

[The Sunnis in Iraq are] really an equivalent of the white South Africans, or the white Rhodesians. They were this privileged minority that lorded it over the rest of the country. And they're having to adjust to the fact that they're just going to be essentially a permanent minority, and cut themselves as good a deal as they can get.. . .

I think that when the Democrats say oh, we need to get out of there and leave it to the Iraqis, they'll be the first ones to squeal when it turns out that some new Iraqi police department is getting a little bit overzealous in how it conducts its affairs. You can't have it both ways. I think there's bound to be a little bit of this. Let's hope it's not too much. But at the same time, let's not overinflate the importance of the Sunnis. They're really an equivalent of the white South Africans, or the white Rhodesians. They were this privileged minority that lorded it over the rest of the country. And they're having to adjust to the fact that they're just going to be essentially a permanent minority, and cut themselves as good a deal as they can get.