Letter to the Oregonian:
In his Sunday editorial, David Reinhard chides those of us who predicted a civil war in Iraq by asking “where’s a true civil war?” Pretty snappy come-back.
Of course, on the same day, the BBC reported that Iyad Allawi, the former interim prime minister of Iraq and someone presumably more in tune with the situation there than Mr. Reinhard, said this:
“It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day as an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more.
“If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.”