An Iraqi Werewolf in London

Iraqi 'insurgents' (are we still calling them that?) are apparently planning to kidnap Prince Harry [1]. Is anyone really terribly surprised by this? The United States has made the current war foreign policy very clear: kidnapping us will do you no good. However, the same cannot be said of British parliament, whose support for the war is significantly wavering, especially with the declared retirement of Tony Blair at the end of term in September. This entire war was screwed from the beginning by bad decisions based on myopic thinking. First we invaded without enough troops, then we fired the Iraqi army and sent armed and well trained men resentfully off into the night, only to think to ourselves later "Oh my how these insurgents are armed and well trained." Certainly Syria and Iran have had a fair hand in increasing the violence, and the seemingly irrational detainment of the British sailors, only to release them shortly after seemed suspiciously altruistic for Ahmadinejad, a leader described as "actually dimmer than President Bush."

It's clearly open season on Brits, a policy that will actually get the insurgents somewhere. We invaded with hopeless idealism, thinking we would find statesmen the likes of George Washington or John Adams. Instead we found average men beset with avarice, determined each to slice off a piece of the oil revenue cake. Iraqis voted in recorded numbers? They voted for their ethnicity, Shiites for Shiites, Sunnis for Sunnis. The minority felt left out and oppressed by the majority, and here we are, and giant cesspool of greed and shady political underbellies. Humanity at its finest.