Iraq

So I'm really glad no one reads this because it's highly unlikely that very many people see things the way I see them.

A little article I read in the NYTimes about stuff that's happening in Iraq.

"Problems with the ration basket have drawn widespread complaints from Iraqis, for whom the program was one of the few visible connections to the government. The food basket was a constant under Saddam Hussein and even his critics pointed to it as one thing they could rely on. The basket consisted of flour, rice, tea, sugar, salt, dried milk for adults and for children, cooking oil, lentils, chickpeas, soap for washing and laundry, and occasional extras, such as tomato paste or cake flour.

During the past three years, both the selection of products and their quality have diminished, many Iraqis say. Milk has been missing for much of the past three years, although it recently made a reappearance, and there have been cases of rice with bugs in it and stale tea. The extras that families received under Mr. Hussein are a thing of the past.

In violence in Iraq on Tuesday, American soldiers accidentally killed a Sunni Arab neighborhood patrol leader in a small town near the oil-refining city of Baiji, the military said. The man, a member of the American-supported Awakening movement, was shot during an operation to clear a house of insurgents."

I'm not saying that we haven't done anything good there. But I'm not saying we have either. I'm just saying we haven't done all good there. We should think long and hard about the costs of war. Is it worth it?