Bush/Cheney/Rummy-Screw-Em-All Ideological War Machine=Permanent Global Conflict

[kpete]

Iraq, deep in your bones
A war that isn't really a war, the great humiliation that's ours forever. Is there any upside?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

Friday, September 14, 2007


There was never any coherent, justifiable heroic cause. Indeed, the truth about Iraq, as evidenced by Gen. David Petreaus' muted, bleak testimony before Congress just this week, is much more simple, nefarious, pathetic. Iraq is, was, and forever will be our very own massive strategic blunder, a failed land grab for position and power in a tinderbox region defined by furious instability and corruption and death.

It's the great unspoken subtext. Iraq has always been a war between our dueling national identities, a battle over how we are to move and breathe and behave in the new millennium. Are we really this violently paranoid bully, this rogue pre-emptive screw-em-all ideological war machine defined by the dystopian Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld vision of permanent, ongoing global conflict?

Or do we try, instead, to move forward and reinvent ourselves over and over again as the world's most commited, forceful peacekeeper, ever striving for balance and cooperation and tact, even in the face of hardship and fundamentalist rage, refusing to be taunted and dragged down lest we take the bait and lose our minds and engage in torture and misprision and ultraviolence and become little better, ideologically speaking, than our taunters? Have we already made our choice?

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Because the truth is, we are well past the point of salvaging anything noble or honest from Bush's massive, historic debacle. We have only this brutal reality: Iraq is, and forever will be, one of the most extraordinary wastes in all of American history.

more at:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2007/09/14/notes091407.DTL

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. Fantastic! I wish someone like Feingold would read this verbatim into the Congressional record.

Very powerful.