Here is a good observation about US politics at its highest level:

Parasites eventually kill their host. The neoconservatives won't be happy until Rummy's dried-up husk is left by the roadside, and their chosen replacement ? Wolfowitz? Woolsey? neocon tool "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf?

US politics at local levels behave much civilly, but the political system has been refined so that at its highest level the brutality can be honorable and at times patriotic.