This is the latest illustration of the ostrich approach to Iranian war-making in Iraq, given voice today in the Boston Globe by this priceless observation from Daniel Serwer of the U.S. Institute for Peace and (of course) the Iraq Study Group, who “said he was not convinced that the Iranian government had decided ‘at the highest levels’ to provide weapons to target US troops,” just because the Defense Department has confirmed that we’ve caught them doing just that. The report elaborates:

“The question is not so much about whether there are Iranian weapons inside Iraq,” said Serwer, who served as executive director of the Iraq Study Group, the bipartisan commission on Iraq. “Sure there are. The question is whether there is a conscious policy by the Iranian government or some part of the Iranian government to support lethal attacks against Americans. I haven’t seen any proof of that yet.”

When it comes to Iraq, the Left is dizzying. Are these not the same people who said that if Lynndie England was walking a naked Iraqi prisoner around like a dog on a leash, she simply must have been acting on orders from Don Rumsfeld, if not Bush himself? Now, the mullahs’ own militia, formed for the purpose of exporting the Islamic revolution, is caught red-handed exporting the Islamic revolution to Iraq, and the Left’s response is to ask whether we can really be sure the mullahs put them up to it?

And the White House press corps, which last year wanted to know how come no high-ranking administration officials had been made to walk the plank over Abu Ghraib is today found pressing Bush about whether Quds terror is really Iranian terror?

Remarkable.