Two years ago today

And it still ain't right, not even close.

Perhaps it would be different, or seem so, if there appeared to be a good-faith effort to do what needs to be done, or, especially, to make up for the man-made disaster that followed the natural, but what am I saying? Good faith? Insert bitter laughter here.

I know my mood would be less dark if I hadn't gone to see No End in Sight, the documentary about the other brown people suffering at the hands of that same malevolently incompetent American administration on the banks of those other rivers on the other side of the world. At least, I guess, the Tigris and Euphrates didn't flood, though at least that might have given Baghdad some running water for a time. No End in Sight is the story of how the occupation of Iraq--not that it should have happened at all--was mucked up beyond all reason, told by those who tried to do it right only to learn this administration is only interested in doing wrong. As film-making, it's a bit like paying to watch old news, though cogently presented. The impact is less in the video clips than in the expressions of those who tried, or who would've if given the chance, and how they know even better than you or I that there really is no end in sight.