C'est pas ma faute!

Via our friend Ethan at 6th or 7th, I see that MattY has gurgitated an authentically, um, an authentically interesting notion:

But whether or not Iraq achieves a durable, non-violent resolution to its political conflicts seems to me to have nothing whatsoever with the presence of American soldiers and it never did.

Well, now, alors, ahem, plainly the "presence of soldiers" is inimical to a so-called non-violent resolution, but you know, it obviously struck Ethan, and it strikes me as well, that Iraq's Sunni Baathist faction had found a resolution to Iraq's "political conflicts" even if you couldn't exactly call Saddam Hussein a devotee of the ideals of Satygraha. But anyway, yes, it is true that the non-violent resolution to Iraq's political conflicts cannot be effectuated by the violent foreign military whose invasion and occupation were the original and proximate cause of the eruption of catastrophic political violence.

I do think that MattY has happened in his bumbling way upon a new slogan for the United States of America:

Don't blame us just because it's our fault.

I would be much obliged if someone could translate it into the Latin.