Insights from Iraq

I certainly feel the same way as this Iraqi blogger, Hassan Kharrufa, although his need to keep his lives separate has far more urgency than my desire to write freely about my largely peaceful life outside of work in southwestern Connecticut, give or take a few run-in's with carpenters and installers. Not that work is so conflict-ridden either, but then it is only part-time. How sad the Iraqi situation is, how utterly removed from mine. I pray that it continues to be so removed, I know as I write what an utterly selfish thought that is, but when I look at my children, well, that's what I think and any parent reading this will instantly understand and forgive the selfishness. If one didn't know how man-made the situation was, one would just think that the place is cursed, first Saddam, then an uninvited war, then mayhem, then disorder, then mass murder. I guess that's what happens when Trotskyites, former or practising, take charge - permanent revolution in both the US and in Iraq. Thank goodness, Trotsky did not succeed in the former USSR. The plight of the poor Soviets would probably have been much worse if this is the fruit of that philosophy.