More Stable than Sudan

Good news: Iraq is not the most failed state in the world, according to Foreign Policy rankings.

Bad news: it's the second-most failed state in the world, with perfect dystopian 10-out-of-10 scores in the categories of Group Grievance, Security Apparatus, and External Intervention. (That 9.7 in Human Rights sure makes me glad we got rid of that repressive Saddam Hussein!)

This is what 3,500 Americans killed, at least half a million Iraqis dead, and a quarter of a trillion dollars spent (so far) have bought us: an Iraq that's slightly better than the world's poster child for dystopian anarchy.

More good news: Joe Lieberman thinks we're making progress.

Oh, wait...that's the bad news.