This is So Fucked Up

ABC news was trying to find a "good" story about Iraq, so they find this television producer who is trying to make a comedy show. They go to the set to film the show and then find out the producer of the show, the guy who greenlit the project, got assassinated.

Now, I'm not sure how the typical American reacts to this. Do we throw up our hands and say, this is impossible, this is a quagmire, nothing good can come out of Iraq?

Because I have the exact opposite reaction - this type of shit makes it all the more clear to me, that we should be involved with Iraq, that indeed, we have a situation where people want to live peaceably and make comedy shows and live their lives and it's being disrupted by a bunch of huge fucking assholes that deserve to be tracked down and killed or arrested. To the extent we can help with this, we should, although ultimately, the Iraqis themselves will have to be the ones with the will to stop the insurgents. I dunno.

What are the alternatives? A failed terrorist state under Saddam? A split into three countries of Sunnis, Kurds, and Shi'ia? Endless insurgency? Some argue that allowing an all out Civil War might be the best thing for the country - shit we had it in this country and survived - and that was 100 years after the issues arose in the Constitutional convention.