Good old Days
Does anyone else miss the rhetoric and criticism from the early days of the Iraq war? When Bush would invoke enough Christian mythology to drown a burning bush, and even Time magazine thought maybe it wasn't a very good idea? The criticism back then was at least on point: this is a modern-day Crusade. Let's be frank: We're going in there to bring Enlightenment and "freedom" to an uncivilized and barbarous people, and if a couple hundred thousand die in the process, well, you can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs. We really find the justifications and projections of how long we have to stay there to make it "enough" shockingly cloying and ambiguous- as if any amount of time will be "enough"- will suddenly make an entire country living in an occcupation go "oh, we like you now!" The irony is truly of Swiftian proportions. Where's H.L. Mencken when you need him?
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What you don't understand is that we're dealing with terrorists.
Posted by: Suckin' Dix | November 20, 2005 10:56 PM