[lbo-talk] Iraq: hit 'em upside the head, quick!

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>[the pretenses are slipping away rapidly]
>
><http://slate.msn.com/id/2082292/>
>
>Law and Order: Special Iraq Unit
>Six new ideas for bringing real security to Iraq.
>By David Plotz ...
>
>It is too late to start the occupation ruthlessly, but it's not too late to 
>enforce the occupation ruthlessly. ...

Fear not, Thomas Friedman strikes a reassuring, nurturing note about Iraq in 
his weekend column.  If not actually reassuring, it's at least damn funny; 
Friedman has to be the worst stylist of any columnist today, as witness:  
"We just adopted a baby called Baghdad — and this is no time for the parents 
to get a divorce. Because raising that baby, in the neighborhood it lives 
in, is going to be a mammoth task."

<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/04/opinion/04FRIE.html>

Carl

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