[lbo-talk] ooops

[W. Kiernan]

Ian Murray quoted Washington Post Staff Writers:
> 
> As Iraqi Shiite demands for a dominant role in Iraq's future
> mount, Bush administration officials say they underestimated
> the Shiites' organizational strength and are unprepared to
> prevent the rise of an anti-American, Islamic fundamentalist
> government in the country...
> 
> ...a State Department official said "I don't think anyone took
> a step backward and asked, 'What are we looking for?'"...

morons


> ...The administration hopes the U.S.-led war in Iraq will lead
> to a crescent of democracies in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, the
> Israeli-occupied territories and Saudi Arabia.

"A democracy in occupied territories," a concept that jumps up off the
page to jab you in the eye, like, say, the phrase "consensual rape."


> ..."This is a 25-year project," one three-star general officer
> said. "Everyone agreed it was a huge risk, and the outcome was
> not at all clear."

Twenty-five years!  Not only do I get to worry about my son being
drafted but also my grandsons.

I'm not drunk enough.

Yours WDK - WKiernan at concentric.net