Jewell, keep on believing the things you like to believe; I'll keep on looking at what is happening and questioning whether the spin makes any sense.
You might like to read the first two or three chapters of the book by the cia analyst, "Anonymous." I think that might give you some insight into whether your speculative "gardeners of freedom" will ever harvest a crop in the Mideast and who it is that we're fighting there, and why.
In the meantime, maybe you could explain why the "Iraqi people who are so hungry to be free," seem to be supporting the insurgency. Why they have not informed on, or thrown out, the insurgents. Why they dance in the streets when our men are shot down. Why the "soldiers and policemen" we've trained won't fight against the insurgents and simply run away rather than risk their lives and kill for what we offer them as "freedom." Why the number of attacks is going up dramatically so that we had more casualties last month than we had during any month of the war. Why the "transfer of sovereignty" didn't put an Iraqi face on the occupation for the Iraqis. Why things in Afghanistan are getting worse and the rebels now have control over most of the land area there.
Hint; maybe it's because your, and the Administration's, basic premise is simply, irrefutably, undeniably tooth fairy thinking? Maybe it's because we've poked a stick in another hive and the bees are flying in swarms and stinging us? Maybe we're more like insects than philosophers when our tribe is invaded? Maybe we've embarked on a course that can have only one outcome; failure, because we were too arrogant, too ignorant and too swollen with power to understand the Iraqi culture, religion and history?
As for me, I'd rather be a pragmatist than a dreamer when making decisions that someone else will be paying for with their lives. |
