I was hoping for a specific agreement or disagreement by you personally, based on your general reading, rather than a citation of testimonials. The specific items are below. They are points made by many observers, not merely by Dowd, which is why I'm hoping you (or others) will comment on them individually. Which do you think is inaccurate? (Nadine, you could say they are all accurate, and yet that it is your expectation that it will all work out well for us in the end):
~Our exhausted and frustrated soldiers are in a hideously difficult environment they're not familiar with, dealing with a culture America only dimly understands
~ Our desperation for any intelligence has reduced us to recruiting Saddam's old spies, whom we didn't trust in the first place...
~ We don't know exactly which of our ghostly Arab enemies are which, how many there are, who's plotting with whom, what weapons they have, how they're getting into Iraq, where they're hiding, or who's financing and organizing them.
~ We don't understand the violent internecine religious battles we've set in motion...
~ Because the unholy alliance of Saddam loyalists, foreign fighters and Islamic terrorists has turned Iraq into a scary shooting gallery for our troops doesn't mean Americans at home are any safer. |
