I know, I know, I whine and gripe and rant a lot on this blog, but these are rantful and gripeable times. And it’s my blog, so y’all can kiss my rumsfeld. Speaking of whom, I just can’t stand the man. Our own little reichskommissar. There are any number of good reasons, but one of my favorites is that the man speaks by asking and answering his own rhetorical questions. It makes me itchy and scratchy. Here’s today’s new low:

There are a couple of other things that are — oh, how would you characterize it? — things you wish weren’t happening. There’s some movement of Shia out of Sunni areas and Sunnis out of Shia areas, to some extent. There undoubtedly are some people who are leaving the country and going to safer places because of the violence.

Does that constitute a civil war? I guess you can decide for your yourself. And we can all go to the dictionary and decide what you want to call something.

But it seems to me that it is not a classic civil war at this stage. It certainly isn’t like our Civil War. It isn’t like the civil war in a number of other countries.

Is it a high level of sectarian violence? Yes, it is. And are people being killed? Yes. And is it unfortunate? Yes. And is the government doing basically the right things? I think so.

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Believe it or not, that’s what he said. Does it make any sense to site all that horror and claim the government is doing the right things? No, it doesn’t.

One of the principal architects of all that carnage remains so detached, he may as well be talking about a movie he didn’t like. Sadly, no one can get up and walk out of this bomb. And we damn sure aren’t getting back the price of the ticket.