Bush just loves a good genocide!

Depending on with whom you talk, there is either hope or no hope at all in Iraq. And when I say whom, I either mean the executive branch, a few hopeful senators, all of Fox News and a couple of ‘liberal’ journalists, Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack from the Brookings Institute versus everybody else. Like every other fabrication that this cobbled-together coalition of the stupid, there is universal opinion, and there is the radically ‘optimistic’ opinion of the brain-dead.

The world knows that we have lost in Iraq. It’s done. There’s nothing left to ‘win’ in this debacle. The problem is how bad it can get. The more optimistic among us suggest that the three main factions in Iraq can’t split because there are Sunnis in the south, where most of the Shi’a are. Yeah, and if you think that would stop it, I will have to go find some Florida swamp-front property to sell you…

As Chris Hedges points out in his article for Truthdig, Iraq is only going to get worse. How I see it, is that we need only look at the separatism that is inherent in different identities forming in competition within the context of a nation. Or look at other attempts to throw together competing groups and call them a nation. Our best example of recent implosion is the former Yugoslavia, which formed a genocidal feud between cultures no longer held together by the strength of law and superstructure. The Serbs and Croats went on a murderous spree, not merely against each other, but to ‘liberate’ those that they believed were rightly their’s: including those that were happy being by themselves in Bosnia. Iraq will continue to be a disturbing bloodbath, which will only have heightened security concerns that will grow exponentially as the country devolves into utter disorientation, poverty, and misery.

At the same time, there are players just waiting for this to happen. Hello there, Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia! I know you are itching to “help” out.

Oh, and don’t forget, we’re already arming the Sunnis that pinky-swore that they’d use these weapons to attack al Qaeda. We will eventually be forced to fully fund the Sunnis against the Shiites in hopes to prevent their utter annihilation (and Shiite alliances).

And don’t forget that we are 100% responsible for this. Most of us, deep down, knew that Bush was lying and that they were falsifying documents, because they were never trustworthy. We knew deep down that this was all a sham, planned from the word go, and was a very bad move. But we didn’t stop him. Millions of us tried. But we didn’t stop it. We allowed our president to commit war crimes under our watch and we didn’t hold him accountable. Now millions more will die in the bloodiest and most disastrous military mistake in recent memory (this is a blunder of a magnitude that dwarfs Vietnam, for all of its political, social, and economic fallout). And what can we do? Perhaps we will have the sense to stick to things treatable like Darfur; oh, but we don’t want to save the Africans from genocide: Haliburton hasn’t asked us to.