Just another day in Iraq

Seems, now that the Brits have pulled out of Basra, that things are a bit untidy:
"The event shines the spotlight on the willingness – and ability – of the central government and the Iraqi Army to exert their authority over Iraq's most strategic and resource-rich city, which is now in the grips of feuding militias. Some of those militias are beholden to Iran, or are criminal gangs and religious fundamentalists who have stepped up in recent weeks their campaign of killings against women, minorities, and secular figures."

Any population that maintains a policy of killing its women will eventually die out. Not fast enough in this case, of course, so we may have to help the process along a bit, but eventually this shit will end, one way or another.