Shock and awe or stuck and divided?

And so we enter the fourth year of an ill-conceived and terribly executed war with a bang. This the latest news from the front: Insurgents marked the unhappy anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq with roadside bombings that killed at least seven policemen, and authorities reported finding 10 more bullet-riddled bodies dumped in the capital, one of them a 13-year-old girl. Apparently, the violence took up where it left off Sunday when at least 35 people died.
When will it stop? And does anybody in Washington have a plan?
As a mother of four sons, it's scary to look at the options because those in power seem blithely clueless or pathetically wrongheaded.I'm most worried about what my children will inherit in the mess we've made of the Middle East.
Meanwhile, back home the country continues bickering. We, the Red and the Blue, agree on nothing, especially on what Iraq has meant -- and will mean -- to our lives. Just the same the terminology of war has become part of everyday language.
Remember shock and awe? Teens now use it to describe certain moves while playing video games. "Weapons of mass destruction" can refer to a sibling's gas problem. And embedded -- isn't that what horny college boys hope for during spring break?