WE WENT OVER AND STARTED KILLING PEOPLE OVER THERE SO FRIENDS OF THEIRS WOULD START TRYING TO KILL US OVER HERE ... OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT

Wow, I expected a lot of right-wing triumphalism in response to this New York Times front-page story, but the relative silence has been deafening:

British Inquiry of Failed Plots Points to Iraq's Qaeda Group

Investigators examining the bungled terrorist attacks in London and Glasgow six months ago believe the plotters had a link to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, which would make the attacks the first that the group has been involved in outside of the Middle East, according to senior officials from three countries who have been briefed on the inquiry.

The evidence pointing to the involvement of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia includes phone numbers of members of the Iraqi group found on the plotters’ cellphones recovered in Britain, a senior American intelligence official said....

Where's the usual solemn (or giddy) self-righteousness? Are right-wingers actually holding back because the connection to Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia/Iraq seems tenuous (an unnamed American counterterrorism official says in the article, "The event is best viewed as A.Q.I.-related, rather than A.Q.I.-directed")? Do the righties not want us to be reminded that the formerly gung ho Brits know all this and are getting out of Iraq? Has it finally dawned on the right that if this group didn't exist until after we invaded, then the invasion was a huge part of the problem? Has the right actually grasped the fact that if we're fighting them over there so we don't have to fight them over here and we fight them over here anyway, the strategy isn't working?

Very surprising.

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UPDATE: Heading typos fixed.