It's Their Problem

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said yesterday that insurgency's "last throes," as Vice-President Cheney so aptly put it, could last more than 12 years. However, he said, it'll be the Iraqis' responsibility for ending it.

And so it should. After all, America holds no responsibility for instigating the insurgency, so why should they be the ones to crush it?

Folly hopes that when the US pulls out, someone puts a nice basin of fresh water on Mr. Rumsfeld's desk, so he can comfortably wash his hands.