Close Enough


I see USA Today's now using more or less the same metaphor as I've been for the past few years in describing Operation Enduring Clusterfuck:

The sad reality is that “civil war” is too simple a term to describe what's happening inside Iraq, where the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 had the same effect as smacking a beehive with a baseball bat.

And while yeah, it's actually a hornet's nest above (and a cane, not a baseball bat), I think you get the picture, no pun intended.

By the way, here's one of the original pictures I used...appropriate, I think, given Shrub's own "senile agitation":