Fratricide, troglodytes and Neanderthal Man..

Fratricide is the order of the day as our four paragons of hedonism assassinate each other's character at the Florida debates. Ron Paul seems to be the only one enjoying himself. Rick Santorum shows positive signs of improving, but remains too wet behind the ears, to earnest and too much like junior grade candidate.

New was seriously holed in the Thursday debate by a renewed, testier and invigorated Romney who had clearly, and finally, done his homework. Not once was he caught flat-footed although he and Newt both looked a bit meek when Rick Santorum chastised them for pursuing irrelevancy through their personal attacks on each other.

Just as Newt has his debating 'moment' in South Carolina and went on to win, the pundits say Mitt has countered with several 'moments' and is slated to win hands down. This is an important win because in Florida, whoever wins takes all the delegate votes. You may recall that by comparison, South Carolina apportions them to each candidate.

Yes, the Haditha raid was a travesty as was the military tribunal that only managed to slap a wrist or two. My call is that such things happen in war, and indeed in peace, as our race still contains traces of troglodyte and Neanderthal behavior. I am afraid there is a lot of it in some of us and a little of it in most of us.

The lesson we will not learn from Iraq is that we engaged ourselves militarily in a civil war and caused massive death and destruction, and departed leaving the country still in the throes of its civil war. Afghanistan is the same thing all over again. One would think that after Korea and Vietnam, we would have been the wiser.