Let's Get Off This Wagon

If you're like me - and I know that at some level you are - you may be getting Headline Fatigue - a famous syndrome I just discovered where you notice you're reading the same headine - day after day after day - but someone just keeps changing the number.

I just see "Baghdad" and 31 or Baghdad and 40, 22 or 60. The story is always the same. This militia did this to that one or a convoy of police trainees or just some poor Shia or Sunni who managed to get caught at the wrong roadblock. The few facts that distinguish one victim from the next have lost meaning. It's the same story, over and over again.

You wouldn't put up with this many re-runs from your cable provider. Why are we accepting this from our government providers?

We, in the outer circle, need to start pressing inward to make these clowns start acknowledging reality. We have to get back to that safe zone again so that we can begin talking to the other side. Washington has to talk to Syria, it has to talk to Iran, and the Palestinians, and the democracy activists who undermine their cozies with Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

This insanity has got to stop. But. then again, consider this: