As much as John McCain and his ventriloquist, Joe Lieberman, alone may adore the prospect, their projection of a 100-year war in Iraq may well be the principal heirloom of the Bush administration and its hoped-for extension of Bush III.

Now we are advised the “surge” is not at all a surge but a near-permanent escalation; it is not designed to provide the stability to get us the hell out of there but to provide the stability to keep us there forever; the troops will not be coming home after all. Surprise!

The American people said, in 2006, that enough is enough. The Bush-McCain-Lieberman response was to have more war not less.

Sadly, because they have no where else to go, the Iraqis are in this pickle “until the end.” But whose “end”? The Sunnis will kill the Shia and the Shia will kill the Sunnis and both will try to kill us. This is called “progress” in Republican hearts.

If the Iraqi government tries to put down the militias, it will be attacked and bloodied by the militias. If it does not, the militias will centralize and rebuild and become stronger and stronger. Who’s in the middle? Guess.

We made this mess happen and we have no clue how to get out of it — except to stay there for 100 years more. Or, worse, expand the wars to Iran and beyond.

 Brilliant.