What with Iranian support for shia fundamentalists, Saudi support for sunni anti-US insurgents, Turkish activity against our friends the Kurds, and even without al-Qaida, Afghanistan, and the looming OMGWTF in Pakistan, it's looking pretty bleak for the forces of truth, freedom, and the american way out there in the area around Eden and Babylon and east, west, south and north somewhat.

Only a traitorous fool could possibly have predicted that we'd be looking back at Saddam's regime as the US/Iraq relationship's good old days.