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Evasion Guilt

I have evasion guilt. I am avoiding news on Iraq, and I feel bad for doing so... but it's not really news any more than "Unrest in Middle East" or "Concern Over Global Warming". 17 Iraquis Killed In Tikrit... yep, sounds like Iraq all right. Hmm, I wonder what's in the Business section?

Then I feel callous so I read the article to make it up to... the dead guys. I don't know. It's just so boring. "We're in a big fat mess and we don't know what to do about it."

Iraq is going to be a mess for a long, long time. Ironically, the only kind of administration that has a hope of controlling and melding together three entirely seperate regions and a thousand different tribes is an iron dictatorship. Saddam must be laughing in his cell. "Foolish Americans! Totally unprepared for the effects of tribal invasion!"