Sunday, November 9, 2003; Page A01 Washington Post Staff Writers
Increasingly alarmed by the failure of Iraq's Governing Council to take decisive action, the Bush administration is developing possible alternatives...
The United States is deeply frustrated with its hand-picked council members because they have spent more time on their own political or economic interests than in planning for Iraq's political future
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It is possible to interpret this as a *hopeful glimmer of sense* hesistantly visible through the mess.
Possible, but not wise.
The IGC had a job to do: provide an Iraqi facemask for the American enterprise. They have failed. Their failure may be due, in part, to whatever deficiencies the Americans choose to list but a better explanation is available: no decision can be made without the approval of Prefect Bremer.
Surely, the members of the IGC know this. Knowing this, what incentive can there be to make decisions? Puppets yes, but retaining some amount of spine. And there is also the nagging problem of illegitimacy. Outside of the American zone, they are not loved.
And so they fail, abandoned, as are all soiled, blow-up love dolls sooner or later, by the same men who once showed such flaming desire.
No, there's no *glimmer of sense* here. Rome has decided that the appointed rulers of the client state are ineffective. They must be replaced by a more effective set.
Now, the question (which answers itself) that must be foremost is this: more effective for whom?
DRM
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