The Word You’re Looking For is ‘Screwed.’

Salon has posted an excellent piece breaking down the situation in Iraq.

If you work with the U.S. or the Iraqi government, you are targeted by al-Qaida. If you work with anyone else, you are targeted by the Shiites. It’s a lose-lose situation. And what’s amazing is this slide has all happened over the past 12 months. It’s pegged to one singular event, the spark, which is the 2006 bombing of the Askariya Mosque in Samarra.

Sadly, that’s kind of the highpoint.