Iraq's Shiite prime minister, struggling to prevent sectarian violence from sending Iraq into full-fledged civil war, is facing strong criticism from top Shiite and Sunni Arab leaders alike as he prepares for a summit with President Bush next week.
Trickshot Dick won't be satisfied until massed divisions take the field à la Gettysburg, but the violence in Iraq has already arguably eclipsed 20th Century civil wars in El Salvador and Algeria. And shows no sign of letting up. Which amounts to a whole lot of fledges, seems to me.
If you don't like "civil war" you can call it something else - a jibberwinkle, maybe, or a flig - but whatever it is you ignore it at your peril.
Because it's there.
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