K-Lo, here’s how the Iraq war’s aftermath is being portrayed for the laziest readers of Time magazine and their “Peace Is Hell” story this week. The two pull quotes are:

At least we had power and security [under Saddam]. Democracy is not feeding us. — Uday Abdul al-Wahab, a shop owner in Baghdad

And:

Going out on raids, busting up things and shooting people tend not to win you many friends. — A top foreign-policy adviser to the first President Bush

Does it make a difference that the writer is Romesh Ratnesar, formerly of The New Republic?