Iraq in a Nutshell

In a recent dispatch from the IHT covering the continuing horror of Iraq, John F. Burns provides (almost as an aside) a solid summation of what the deal is:

Shiites now hold power for the first time in centuries through the embattled Shiite-led, U.S.-supported government in Baghdad. They have been the principal targets of bombings by Sunni insurgent groups seeking to drive American and other foreign forces out of Iraq and to restore Sunni minority rule. But Shiites have also suffered increasingly in areas of southern Iraq, where most Shiites live, from internecine violence among rival Shiite militia groups.

I've never seen anyone spell out the situation that clearly and succinctly before.

I can never complain again about my personal life. No matter how "bad" things get for me, I do not live in Iraq.