Why is it that, outside the shrill leftysphere, there is almost no discussion about how boneheaded it was to start a war over weapons-of-mass-destruction that didn't exist?

How does turning a hemmed-in secular dictatorship into a hotbed and of — and recruiting cause for — anti-Western religious-fundamentalist terrorism make us safer?

Quite amazing that there are counter-protesters who will show up in support of that belief.

If things are going so great in Iraq, why are we arming Sunni militias?

Oh, it's going great because we're arming Sunni militias?

And here I thought we didn't have a sustainable plan for peace in Iraq.

A couple of days ago, MJS asked How many Iraqis have been killed since March 20th, 2003?

A while back, I posed another simple, elephant-in-the-room question: Why the fuck are we in Iraq?

Our world has become so skewed that there are many such essential, unexplored mysteries all about. As a little tribute to the long-lost reality-based world, perhaps we should start cataloging them.

Today's simple question is... How could the U.S. arming Sunni militias in Iraq possibly end well?