OK, I promise to keep the pictures to a minimum.

I figure one a week, and only if it's topical.

Back to business, here's a snippet from ARI's latest Op-Ed:

American Appeasement in Iraq

The way to avoid a disaster in Iraq is to stop apologizing for our
presence, and to start forcefully asserting our principle of
individual freedom

By Peter Schwartz

...
On the military front, our soldiers face continuing attacks,
but political considerations prevent us from disarming the populace.
Attendees at funerals and weddings regularly fire automatic weapons,
as their means of "emotional expression." We are at war, but our
military planners apparently believe that a methodical, house-to-house
search for guns--let alone a disarming of private "militias" in
Fallujah and elsewhere--would be too "intrusive." Iraqis--again,
brandishing automatic weapons--stage public demonstrations designed to
incite violence against us. Yet none are arrested, presumably because
we don't want to be regarded as overly assertive.
...
In postwar Japan, it was Gen. Douglas MacArthur who
unilaterally drafted a new constitution--over the objections of many
Japanese--and paved the way for a radical shift from tyranny to
liberty. Emulating MacArthur, by imposing upon Iraq a U.S.-written
constitution that champions the principle of individual rights,
including the separation of mosque and state, would be an ideal means
of asserting our interests--along with the interests of those Iraqis
who genuinely value freedom.