It’s been a grim week.  What’s to say about Iraq?  To Rush Limbaugh’s glee, Tom Friedman says:

If we defeat them in the heart of their world, in collaboration with other Arabs and Muslims, by putting together some kind of decent democracy in Iraq, that will have an enormous impact, an enormous resonance in the region and be a terrible defeat. So what you’re seeing now is in many ways acts of unspeakable violence. I mean, going into a mosque, blowing it up, one of the most prominent Shi’ites shrines, the reason they’re doing that is actually because in some ways they’ve been losing. The process of Iraq coming together has been happening. And I believe that the most dangerous point for America, as with Iraq, is the closer we actually get to producing a decent outcome there, the crazier our opponents are going to get, because they know if they lose, it’s strategic.

If we turn just one more corner in Iraq, the project will be done.   Who knew we were building a big, exploding, origami swan with torture chambers, death squads, and ethnic cleansing?  

Pete DeWan