George Will Believes Iraq To Be Quite The Mess..

"On June 20, 2003, just 72 days after the fall of Baghdad, The Washington Post reported this vignette from Fallujah: "Military engineers recently cleared garbage from a field in Fallujah, resurfaced it with dirt and put up goal posts to create an instant soccer field. A day later, the goal posts were stolen and all the dirt had been scraped from the field. Garbage began to pile up again."

An Army captain asked, "What kind of people loot dirt?" There are many answers to that question. Here is one: A kind of people who are hard to help."

Um, George? The kind of person that loots dirt also lives in this town you might have heard of that some folks spell as New Orleans, but pronounce as Nweye-ens. A point could in fact be made that there are less signs of civilization right here in the states than in any corner of Iraq. As someone who's been to both places, I'd pick Iraq.

AFTER ZARQAWI: BUT IRAQ REMAINS A MESS By GEORGE F. WILL - New York Post Online Edition: Postopinion