A Mess

That's the best I can do at describing Iraq. We are currently engaged in an offensive in Falluja designed to enhance Sunni participation in elections, but the main Sunni political party has withdrawn from the government in protest. American forces are advancing into Falluja, and will likely regain the control over the city they once exercised, but as Daily Kos (former soldier who has lived through a guerrilla war) points out not meeting resistance isn't a good thing when your goals include crushing the resistance. As I write this, somone is saying on CNN that Zarqawi is no longer in the city, presumably leaving in the long (pre-election) run-up to the offensive, much like he escaped into the Sunni triangle in the first place when we didn't bother to attack his camp in Kurdistan before the war. And some distance away, insurgents have retaken the center of Ramadi.

And no, I don't have a better idea at the point. Hence the title of this post.