A Civil War? How unDemocratic!

The New York Times and other venues printed today that Civil War in Iraq looms nearer every day.

General John Abizaid told the Senate Armed Services Committee that "the sectarian violence is probably as bad as I’ve seen it, in Baghdad in particular, and that if not stopped, it is possible that Iraq could move towards civil war" in the article.

It's a scary prospect for American soldiers as well as Iraqis, because violence will only increase and lead to more deaths. The Armed Forces then will only be caught in the middle of the war, playing an ineffectual peacekeeper to a country already caught in more turmoil than the land - and the people - can handle.