Buzzards on a fencepost

I’m not the only person to have noticed the obscene way that the left is eagerly anticipating the prospect of an Iraqi civil war. This from PowerLine:

Elements of the MSM seem to await a civil war in Iraq with the same breathlessness that Marxists used to await the final crisis of capitalism. Each significant instance of violence between Sunni and Shia is viewed either as evidence that the civil war has started or is just around the corner. Last week's conflagration appears to have been just another false alarm. The Australian reports that "the movement of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, alleged to have played a role in the anti-Sunni violence over the last few days, publicly made peace with political and religious Sunni leaders overnight." In addition, "Salam al-Maliki, a cabinet minister allied to Sadr, and Iyad al-Sammaraie of the Sunni Islamic Party proclaimed their own reconciliation at a joint press conference, aired on Iraqi state television."

The Left wants civil war in Iraq as badly as Osama bin Laden does. What must it be like to be one of these people? How can the party of Jefferson and Jackson, the party that led the nation through WWII, have fallen so far?