Too late

Every "strategic" move by the US in Iraq has been too late. From the response to the looting to the abandonment of Jay Garner's 90 day elections, every response has come too late.

Operation Forward Together only began after ethnic cleansing had already begun, about five months too late to have the desired inertia changing effect.

The current effort to involve the regional neighbors will take at best months to bear fruit. Six months too late.

Reading tomorrow's WaPo front page story on the Sunnis girding themselves against the coming reprisals, I've lost hope.

The reality is becoming even worse than I'd imagined.