I arrived home yesterday to find an accounting from my retirement investments. The news wasn’t all bad. In the first quarter of this year I had an account that earned $10. On the other hand, the overall loss for the first quarter of 2008 was five (5), I repeat, five (5) times the amount invested.So then I read this tidbit in the news from Iraq:William Odom, a retired three-star Army general, has spelled out just how shaky our alliance with the Sunnis is. “Our new Sunni friends insist on being paid for their loyalty,” Odom told the Senate Foreign Relations committee last Wednesday. He cited one estimate that the U.S.…