don’t call it a civil war.

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According to the U.N. Assistance Mission in Iraq, six thousand Iraqis have died in the last two months alone. This is no longer the work of terrorist insurgents striking at infrastructure; it’s a full-blown civil conflict between Sunnis and Shiites, and it’s exactly what the non-Iraqi al-Qaeda spinoffs wanted to achieve. Iraq’s Shiites and Sunnis have so much bad blood between them that they took the bait all too willingly, and now there’s very little that can keep Iraq from falling apart along sectarian lines. It will be Sunnis in the middle, Shiites in the south, and Kurds in the north, and when the smoke clears, they’ll either have a home-brewed theocracy, or Iran will rule the place by proxy. Call me a pessimist, but with the way things are going, I predict a pretty crummy return on our investment of half a trillion taxpayer dollars and almost three thousand American fighting men and women.

I should really stop reading the news and focus on some happier blogging subjects, like Quinn’s newly discovered ability to summon mommy and daddy by using the proper titles. He’s pretty consistent now with his use of “mommy” and “daddy”, although they sound more like “mama” and “deedee” out of his mouth. We’ll work on the accent later, I suppose.

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