Courtesy CNN:

Powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is threatening to withdraw support from Iraq’s government if Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki meets President Bush next week, an al-Sadr representative said Friday.

Such a move could jeopardize the stability of the administration of al-Maliki who has relied on the support of both the United States and his fellow Shiites.

Basically, Iraq is either a civil war, or a civil war waiting to happen.  Things couldn’t be going much worse, although not everybody’s not dead yet.  For things to be worse, there’d have to be open war.

I don’t have much to say on this – because this has been going on for a while and I tend to shy away from the Iraq stuff because we hear the same exact things every day – but some sort of decisive, proactive action is needed.  I won’t even say what it should be, but an answer should be made.  I don’t understand why we can’t establish order there as decisively as we took it over – and it’s not a cultural impossibility, because with enough leverage you can do anything.

American people’s lack of resolve in this whole situation is the real problem.  Since we’re used to changing a song with our iPod once we’re sick of hearing it, most voters have no idea about any of this.  We’ve elected a Democratic congress, which has no decisive plan either. 

I mean, for crying out loud people, I might be a huge conservative, but all I’m calling for is massive and decisive action.  Cutting and running is better than keeping the oven on and leaving it be.

Your thoughts?