Kevin Vaughan

With all of the ongoing chaos in the middle east:

• al-Qaida launching most potent strikes in Afghanistan since 2001


• Iraqi government thus far failing to setup a structure that can maintain its own people and stability


• Iran still chanting death to America and thumbing its nose to Britain as well


• Hamas, Fatah, Abbas, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Civil War (there is a Billy Joel song coming in here somewhere)


• the list goes on and on...

It hits a bit closer to home to see that the latest 2007 DoD report on stability and security in Iraq (June 2007) shows the Iraqi people with an overall confidence rating of 58% that the Iraqi government can improve the situation there. Compare that with our own national confidence in Bush for that same time frame, 38%. This is under constant rolling blackouts and threat of death.

What do you do to help bring everyone out of a massive quagmire of such large proportions that is the middle east?