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Not to say that the situation in Iraq, especially in the Sunni triangle, isn’t bad. It is. But there is no civil war and probably won’t be one.

Rather, as Lee Harris said over at Winds of Change Iraq is on the brink of “tribalist anarchy”. I’m now thinking that this is a better term to describe the danger than “civil war”, which implies something along the American experience 1860-5 or the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

believe it or not, the guardian recently opined that communism was really not that bad;

not a single msm outlet has ever recanted the “massacre in jeningrad story”, or that mohummed al dura was NOT a victim of colonialism but of ruthless jihadoterror (the fallows Atlantic article is as big as it got);

the MSM continuously harps that retributionary and preventive/preemptive violence - (like the Mossad’s response to Munich, the USA’s response to a decade of Saddam’s violating the armistice,) - only adds to the “cycle of violence;” constant use of body-counts/”death total updates” are used to highlight this angle - as if as long as there are deaths due to jihadoterror we haven’t won and/or we aren’t making any progress;

and they continue to deny that lebanon and libya were reformed - and syria forced to exit lebanon - by bush’s aggressive foreign policies.

if the MSM during WW2 had been this bad, then FDR’s would’ve essentially had to get his message out through what amounts to Goebbels’ propaganda machine. and he wouldn’t have been reelected in 1944.

YUP: the MSM today works as much for the enemy as the Goebbels machine worked for Hitler, and as Pravda worked for the USSR.

Today’s MSM are - for all intents and purposes - a tool of the enemy.

In fact, we could much more easily say they were full of crap.

This may yet become a civil war. More likely the violence will peter out, the Sunnis will come back to the table…until the next well placed bomb brings the country to the brink again.

To recognize this kind of instability without going off half cocked and saying that “this is it” as far as the catalyst for a civil war is much more realistic.

Democratic elections are a series of zig-zags along the path towards an ideal.

I think that it thus stands to reason that the first election that a country has little or no meaning. It is not until the fourth or fifth election that a clear direction starts to appear.

I would expect it to be, therefore, perhaps 20 years before the Iraqi government begins to sort itself out.

The fact that there are THREE factions in Iraq is a problem that may contain the roots of its own solution. None of the three has quite enough power to do without one of the other two.

This will, ultimately, force compromise.

Note that our own country required a civil war to achieve its final form.