Cindy Sheehan emerged from obscurity, but not from obloquy, when she took her one-woman show all the way to the streets of Cairo.

Cindy Sheehan emerged from obscurity, but not from obloquy, when she took her one-woman show all the way to the streets of Cairo. That mother of a slain soldier is pushing for an end to military trials for members of the Muslim Brotherhood, the international group whose members populate al-Qaeda and founded Hamas. Sheehan didn't seem to mind that her Brotherhood minders ("always nicely garbed in Western suits") wiped off their hands after shaking hers to ward off the contamination of her touch. Does she not know that leaders of the Brotherhood have called the killing of American troops and civilians in Iraq a religious obligation? Does she not care? The capital of her grief long spent, Sheehan has now shaken hands with and given solace to her enemies, the men who stole away her son and begat her hapless campaign.

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