Deep QaQaa: The shock of hearing that some 380 tons of high explosives have been looted from Al QaQaa, a large munitions storage site known to the UN, Bush, and the IAEA, is compounded by knowledge of how much firepower it's giving insurgents in Iraq. As the New York Times reports, the terrorist bomb that took down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie used less than a pound of the same materials. Add to that the fact that Iraqi rebels had an almost unimaginable 650,000 (or more) tons of ammunition already on hand one year ago--an amount equal to about a third of the US military's stockpile. Whichever term you choose--quagmire or civil war--we're not getting out of this one easily.

Speaking of civil war, Arabs are concerned about another one--this time in the United States.