WTF Is It Now?!?

Ohhhhhhh kay.....
Roger Aronoff seems to have gone completely insane while no one was paying attention:

Amidst all of the news of sectarian violence and the temporary inability to form a government of national unity in Iraq, there is actually reason for optimism. The truth is that the forces of freedom and democracy are making progress. Now, if we could only get the media to pay attention. Following the February bombing of one of the Shia's most sacred shrines, the Golden Dome mosque in Samarra, the situation could have careened out of control into full-fledged civil war. But it didn't.

Well, that's good enough for me!