there are no easy answers. period. that's an easy answer. perhaps this mess of war and non-peace and oversaturation of consumer info thru the big time media and the warblog/antiwarblog bickering and the weariness resulting from being told nothing really about everything that happened/may have happened/will certainly happen in the real world or only in some partisans' deepest delusional desires will encourage us to stop expecting easy answers and just sit down and do the damned hard work that is actually required to accomplish progress.