"Undeclared Civil War"

As noted below, things aren't exactly going as planned in the New Iraq:

BAGHDAD — That pink-o, liberal workers’ rag DefenseNews (thanks to Robert for the link!), also known as a trade publication for defense contractors, published a depressing piece on Iraq calling the situation here an "undeclared civil war." I think it’s time we journalists faced up that this is, indeed the case...

The question is what is Washington going to do? They’re in a no-win situation, Jaafar says, neither able to withdraw nor able to maintain Iraq’s unity and establish a democratic Iraq as a model for neighboring countries. Attiyah believes the U.S. might choose to sacrifice Iraq’s unity for its own goals...

A dismembered Iraq with various militias fighting over the corpse on top of 20 percent of the world’s oil. It’s a nightmare scenario that looks more more likely by the day, and the current civil war is just a smolder compared to the inferno to come.

Well, it DOES speak to a certain consistency within the Bush administration: incompetent in domestic matters, incompetent in foreign policy as well.