Twentieth-century physics upended previous ideas about time, space and mass. Mass converts into energy; energy changes rather than being gained or lost; time and space are relative to each other. Albert Einstein, he of the adorable face, space-physics hair, and loving eyes, combined some premier principles into one simple formula.

Heading into the 21^st century – and stuck in Iraq, unless we the people do something about it – we need to apply some equally lucid conversion principles to the Iraq war.

Here is the simple formulation: the more time we spend in Iraq, the more lives ...   more »