Reality Bites

From the AP, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on Monday his country will not slide into civil war, but acknowledged that mounting sectarian violence is now killing 100 civilians a day.

You have to wonder what kind of stupid it takes to make a statement of such monumental idiocy. If sectarian violence is claiming 100 people a day, is it not self-evident that a civil war is indeed being fought? At this pace 36,500 people will be dead in a year. The math is simple. How is that not a civil war? Alternatively, how many deaths are required before you cross the civil war finish line?

Maliki is witnessing his nation self-destruct and he lacks the situational awareness to perceive that reality. Oy.