FOX News Asks: All Out Civil War: Is It a Good Thing?

Gotta Hand it to the Right Wing: They're nothing if not relentlessly positive, regardless how tragic an event might be. In fact, when London was bombed last year, Fox News' Brian Kilmeade mused about whether this might be a good thing for the West. Yes, for the folks at FOX, more than 50 dead Britons and 700 more injured and maimed is cause to celebrate the bonding of the West.

Now, the Foxies are debating whether Iraq's drawing towards civil war is a good thing.

Let's check the definition first, shall we?

A civil war is a war in which the parties within the same country struggle for national control of state power. As in any war, the conflict may be over other matters such as religion, ethnicity, or distribution of wealth. Some civil wars are also categorized as revolutions when major societal restructuring is a possible outcome of the conflict.

Now, last I checked, war was hell. I mean, it may be called a Civil War, but frankly there's nothing civil about it. It's nasty intercine strife. Bombs and bullets and blood and horror, people losing limbs, love ones and their lives. It is an altogether nasty thing that would see, in Iraq, tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqi men, women and children die.

But at FOX, they debate whether or not a bunch of innocents being killed is a good thing. Wow. That's not journalism. That's sociopathology.

You say potatoe, I say . . . Ghoulish.