Rowan Scarborough, who recently left the Washington Times to go to the Examiner, is one of our very best national-security reporters. I can’t wait to see his book on the CIA, which I think and hope will be out shortly. He’s written a first-class article on how the military see Iranian intervention in Iraq.Here’s the gist:

(Brigadier General) Bergner last week released details on how Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Qods Force is arming and training Shiite militants at camps inside Iran. He talked of “secret cells” of Shiites “who are destabilizing the security situation in Iraq” at the behest of the Qods Force, which reports to Iran’s ruling mullahs. It was this new assessment that prompted Lieberman to press the White House. “The threat posed by Iran to our soldiers’ lives … is a truth that cannot be wished or waved away,” he said. “It must be confronted head-on.”

Which has been true for some time, but you can’t find a policy maker with the courage to stand up and say so.