The Sad Tale of Iraq

Adam of Logic Tells Us has some thoughtful observations on Iraq which he summarizes in his last paragraph:

Irony has a dastardly way of reverberating through history, especially in Iraq. It was genocide against the Shi'ites that helped cause Saddam to be removed from power. It has been mass murder (pardon my French, "collateral damage") and torture by the US that has removed him from power, and now the Sunnis are feeling the effects of their own wicked medicine: mass murder and torture. A cynic might say that it seems fair, an eye for an eye as the Babylonians contended, but that's what got us here in the first place.

Given the complexity of Iraq, framing these things is not easy but Adam makes an excellent point: at great cost, Bush has managed to replace one group of thugs with another group of thugs. And the damages keep rising.