La Danse Macabre

I was writing about my China trip. But this came to my attention first: "US officials rethink hopes for Iraqi democracy".

So, after $600 billion spent, 3700 American deaths and God knows how many tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths, the US is finally of the view that only a dictator can run Iraq. Talk about ironies...

And trivialities. In what seems a lifetime ago, in the same country, another president was impeached for lying about sex.