Two buffoons argue over an egg dropped on the floor. They both claim responsibility as they call it a wonderful culinary creation. The two erstwhile kitchen technicians are former V.P. Dick Cheney and current V.P. Joe Biden. The smashed egg ovum is the political situation in Iraq; the splattered albumen the Iraqi people; the shell fragments Iranian involvement.
Biden, on Larry King recently, said, "You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government." In reality, the current Iraqi elections (set for March 7) are quickly descending into brutality, bombings, and assassinations. An unelected election panel headed by an Iran-linked terrorist barred 500 candidates from running, including numbers 2 and 3 in the main opposition bloc, headed by former prime minister Iyad Allawi.
This is what we get for $1 trillion wasted: thorough Iranian infiltration of Iraq's economic, political, and military institutions, 4,000 Americans dead, several hundred thousand dead Iraqis, more than 2 million refugees, and what looks like a repeat of Afghanistan--rigged elections.
The two actor-buffoons want to argue over this, the current state of the worst foreign-policy disaster in U.S. history? It's a raw, volatile, already putrefying mess.
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
15 February 2010
02 February 2009
DOCTOR FRANKENSTEIN'S MIDDLE EAST CREATURE
There's a great deal of evidence resulting in belief by American diplomats and those in the intelligence community that the future of Iraq very much depends on what Iran decides to do. The current "peace" in Iraq, which is not very peaceful, is a pause in which hundreds of Sunni men who participated in the U.S.-allied Awakening have been assassinated, either by death squads linked to the Iraqi ministry of the interior or Iran's intelligence service. This leads to the conclusion that the Surge has not created the conditions for permanent peace and the context exists for another flare up of violence, notwithstanding the recent, peaceful elections.
The American war in Iraq has created the conditions for Iran to become the major player in the region and it holds most of the cards in Iraq. Whatever the outcome, and it might be a major confrontation between the U.S. and Iran, it is Iran and its actions in Iraq and the bargain it forges with the U.S. that will be the force largely driving the future of the region.
The U.S. as Doctor Frankenstein has created its own monster. Let's see if it can be contained; or whether, as in Ms. Wollstonecraft Shelly's novel, events have turned and the Doctor has lost control.
The American war in Iraq has created the conditions for Iran to become the major player in the region and it holds most of the cards in Iraq. Whatever the outcome, and it might be a major confrontation between the U.S. and Iran, it is Iran and its actions in Iraq and the bargain it forges with the U.S. that will be the force largely driving the future of the region.
The U.S. as Doctor Frankenstein has created its own monster. Let's see if it can be contained; or whether, as in Ms. Wollstonecraft Shelly's novel, events have turned and the Doctor has lost control.
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