I've been following the recent developments in Iraq and it's like a bad movie or something. It starts out slow with sporadic violence but as it reaches the end it builds to a climax (the end being all out civil war and chaos). Over the last 3-4 weeks the lid seems to have come off as the casualties and number of people killed has shot way up from previous levels Is there a happy end in sight? Eventually, yes there will be stability there. Will it be in my lifetime? That I honestly don't know. It could be a few years, decades, or even centuries before the situation finally stabilizes as it eventually must. After all every time throughout history a government has fallen a new one has always replaced it in the end.

I don't really what to go into a diatribe so I will just close with these few thoughts. Democracy exists only as long as people believe in it and guard it. For quite a few years now I've been angry, even full or rage at the way voters have led the United States down the path it has gone. I am hopeful that now that the imbalance of power in the capital is gone; that the United States can find its way back to the political center (after six years of a one party, one view and screw any one who doesn't agree-way of doing things). Maybe once the new legislature is sworn in and America is back where it needs to be (which is a political balance allowing everyone equal access to government) this country can get Iraq on the right course as this administration as failed (and with it all those who support it) to do.