This is an actual headline on the Washington Post website right now:
Iraq at Risk of Further Strife, Report Warns
National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq outlines increasingly perilous situation in which U.S. has little control and foresees further deterioration.
Now that’s news.
They should have just said “Groundhog sees shadow, predicts 6 more years of war.”
For years now, most pundits assumed that the only way progress would be made in the Palestinian/Israeli conflict would be after Arafat was gone.
Well, now what?
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