War

Entering the fifth year of an open-ended conflict in Iraq, a few things are certain:
The Iraqi's don't want democracy, it simply not something they desire or require.
Oil is the main reason we are there and there are no immediate substitutes for our energy needs save for conservation and decentralization of energy.
Billions of dollars and thousands of lives will continue to be drained by the conflict because the people we have hired to run the government have neither the imagination or the incentive to effect a resolution of the crisis.