Iraq’s new government still cannot fill the cabinet posts for the national security, interior, and defense ministries, and the sectarian slaughter continues:

Masked gunmen stopped two minivans carrying students north of Baghdad Sunday, ordered the passengers off, separated Shiites from Sunni Arabs, and killed the 21 Shiites “in the name of Islam,” a witness said.

As a long-time supporter of regime change in Iraq, this nightmare is getting harder and harder for me to follow. Can there be any hope for a society that produces such violence?