John Burns writes the definitive, desperate plea for sustaining some sort of hope. More evidence of the Bush administration’s staggering incompetence in trying to fight a critical war on the cheap and on the fly can be read here. This passage from another NYT story today chilled me:
Mr. Awad said he was bracing for more violence. Iraq, deeply damaged during the years under Mr. Hussein, is simply not yet ready to calmly accept democracy, he said. "For a period of time, things need to burn," he said, seated on a mat in the house of his dead relatives in Sadr City on Friday. The deaths left a family of 11 women without men. "We have to pass through this period," he continued. "Forgive me if I speak in a sectarian way, but this is the reality."
Increasingly, I fear it is.
The Dish 