Anatomy of a Civil War

Iraq’s descent into chaos by Nir Rosen
“We did not have a country under Saddam, and now that Saddam is gone, why can we not have a country? . . . Even though we and our neighbors have one religion and one fate, the United States has succeeded in making us enemies. Instead of reconstructing the shrine of the two imams in Samarra”‚ an important Shia shrine whose bombing in February 2006 fed the civil war—‚ the occupation is building prisons.” Muqtada switched to Iraqi dialect again to quip, “preparing them for the Iraqi people.”

We're still more worried about building prisons in Iraq than enabling the peace. Sounds like conditions here in the us