Eazy E and the Surge

There's a line in "Straight Outta Compton" where Eazy E says:

"But I'm smart, lay low, creep a while
And when I see a punk pass, I smile"

And that's what seems to have happened with the surge in Iraq. For all the talk of a drop in sectarian killings in April, they are on the rise again this month. What happens is of course, like street thugs, the insurgents of every stripe know when the heat is on. They lay low, creep a while, just like Eazy says. As soon as the US troops pass by it's back to kidnappings and sectarian honour killings, and whatever else can be done to visit misery on others.

Put another way, the Sunni-Shi'a thing is over a thousand years old, no one is going to forget it during a six month troop surge.

et tu Ice Cube?

Sometimes when I see a trailer featuring Ice Cube starring in another family friendly film (Are We Done Yet being the latest I think) I watch this video and wonder how we got here from there. Not that Cube can't have a somewhat sappier second career, but still...