Another Londonistan

The British like to complain of our cowboy pacification efforts in the Sunni triangle and point to their quiet Shia zone as the example we should follow.

Well, after two July attacks on British mass transit that show us how the British cleverly created an enemy within, we also know that the British have been sophisticated enough to turn Basra into a budding Londonistan. They've allowed the security services there be infiltrated by Islamists.

And a good man, Steven Vincent, was murdered for letting the world know.

So what are the British going to do about the Islamist enclaves they've allowed to grow? I mean, their long colonial experience governing the wogs notwithstanding. And will we pressure the British or is the British commitment to Iraq to tenuous to test?

I value the British as friends and allies. But a little more action and a little less attitude from the British would be in order--in Britain and Basra.

And once again I ask, why is Muqtada al-Sadr still alive?