We broke it, we buy it? Bullshit.

[Proud Public Servant]

8. Does this sound better?

"You created the problem? Congrats -- it's now your problem."

Because that's what happened. Saddam was his own special brand of nasty, but he was a secular strongman who kept Iraq relatively harmless to us and relatively stable (with an educated middle class, a functioning electrical grid, and everything). He was a check on both Iran and Saudi Arabia; he was useful. But we blew that up, and are reaping the whirlwind. We broke it. We bought it.

If that upsets you, ask yourself this: do you want to live in a U.S. where we take moral responsibility for our fuck-ups, or a U.S. where we just do what we want with impunity and consequences be damned? Because the difference between those two attitudes is the difference between our two parties, or at least the dividing line between the two sides of the political spectrum.