Swope of Needlenose has done great work in following the Iraqi mess over the years. I really don't read him enough. He writes today about the polly-anna-ishness of the Iraq Study Group report. Go give it a read and you'll get a chilling sense of how entrenched at least three separate large groups (not including the Kurds) are in the desire to annihilate each other.
I'm a very lucky person with every allergy known to man but still happy to be enjoying a wonderful life living in the best place in the world!