I suppose it is churlish of me to do anything other than effuse with a star-spangled flourish over our glorious liberation of Iraq. Still, a couple of recent news items give me pause.
- Rumsfeld and right wing groups are already rattling their sabres at Syria.
- Remember the Taliban? They’re still around, and they’re killing aid workers.
As Stephen Colbert sneeringly said last night on the Daily Show, “Rebuilding is for losers!” Is it possible that, despite our regime’s administration’s often-repeated promises to rebuild Iraq that they’re really more interested in a permanent war?
What’s the opposite of deja-vu? I feel as if I can see history repeating itself.
I don’t get it: why are they targeting Iran? Don’t they know that Iran is the one country in the region poised to reform itself? And don’t they realize that the one sure way to kill that reform is to get the “Great Satan” US mixed up in it?
Bush may be the most geopolitically-challenged president we’ve ever had. He simply can’t believe that rebuilding a unified Iraq, with its ethnic fault lines and myriad factional rivalries, will be very difficult. Condy and others who know better can’t talk him out of it.
The situation in Iraq may well degenerate to a large-scale version of Israel vs. Palestinians. Lotsa fun.
BTW this may be old news to you, but check out bin Laden’s blog:
http://osamaladen.blogspot.com/