Hmmm.. seems like I've been fiddling while Iraq burns. I've been completely out of the news cycle since last Wednesday and now I see on the International Herald Tribune that Iraq seems to be spiraling out of control pretty quickly. It's starting to look like the Lebanon rather than Vietnam. Aspects of both I suppose but the civil war in the Lebanon, being factional and religious, is probably a much closer parallel at the moment. That, and the civ on civ violence that characterized it.
Maybe this will finally motivate the US government to pull out. I'm sure mothers and fathers across America certainly hope so.
Posted by artandscience at March 14, 2006 01:30 PM