Adam's blogbox: Iraq, Iraq, what are we doing in Iraq?

There's a belief suffered by many pundits in our land. It's that the US is "the best hope for maintaining peace in Iraq long enough to establish stable self-government."

Really, this reaches beyond the bounds of excusable naivete into sheer Bushit dumbfuckery.

The US is now a destablizing force in Iraq.

This is a fight the Iraqis -- Sunnis vs. Shiites -- have to sort out themselves. It's not our job to stop the fighting between them. It's not a fight any outsider can settle.

We've got to get out of there and let them settle it, the way these things are settled -- with the gun. That's how we settled our own fight in the Civil War. That's how they'll settle theirs, and there's ABSOLUTELY NOTHING we can do to help.

As they say down in Texas, we don't have a dog in this fight. We did them a great favor in removing Saddam, and they should be thankful they now have a chance to create the country they want -- even it's a Shiite theocracy allied to Iran that doesn't like us.

I for one don't want to sacrifice one more American kid to the internal squabbles of some medieval desert tribes who happen to be sitting on a sea of oil.

We've done all we can, and some of it has been pretty bad. It's time to get the HELL OUT.