Cobb: Recap on Iraq

March 01, 2003

Recap on Iraq

While I have never been willing to follow GW into battle, I have given my tacit support to the decapitation of Saddam. But as time passes by and more and more things go wrong, it's getting to the point at which I can't see this being a good thing at all. Not because the goal is not admirable, but because the players on our team are so wreckless.

We are fast approaching the point at which a great deal is at risk with repercussions far beyond the battlefield, and the Bush administration is isolating itself for the sake of a goal which is slowly slipping beyond its grasp. To establish the world beating military hegemony administration wonks desire at the cost of great amounts of diplomatic goodwill is not worth it. We can be pinpricked to death, and a living hell of American life can very well be accomplished. Anyone with a memory of the days when Americans made films about bad guys on motorcycles should recall what it was like to feel the kind of paranoia we may be subjecting ourselves to. The entire national psyche can revert to the days of malaise.

There are any number of scenarios in which too many American soldiers get the bad end of a bad war. If we don't win with overwhelming decisiveness, the entire Mexican Bus strategy will fail, that is unless we are immediately ready to take on Korea. Even if we did take on Korea, is that really what we ought to be doing, so soon? GW is making us look like a petulant nation, one that cannot absorb any downside and one that won't take any downtime.

There seems to be no subtlety left here, nor anyone left to impress except the Iraqi people themselves. That's pathetic.

The AQ Mastermind is Caught
The Turks Double Crossed Us
The Koreans Are Blackmailing Us
The Shuttle Exploded
NATO is Crumbling
The Army Resents Rumsfeld
The UN is Spied On
The Protests Continue
Civil Liberties are Continually Attacked

Is this any way to run an Empire? For what? 3,000 lives? It's preposterous. Somebody needs to slow this train down. We're headed in the right direction, but too fast and on a dangerous track.

Posted by mbowen at March 1, 2003 09:19 PM

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