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U.S. Failures in Iraq Set Stage For Deeper Trouble
(Georgie Anne Geyer, Universal Press Syndicate, 29 August 2003)
In only the last week, the war in Iraq has entered a phase characterized by two amazingly contradictory developments.

First, it is generally accepted (except by the war's avid authorities) that the reasons for invading Iraq were false. Second, the war party around the White House and the Pentagon are responding to their incredible failures of judgment not by modifying their policies in the Middle East, but by doing more and still more of the same. And in one of those bizarre turns of history, their acts have brought them (and us) within a hair's breadth of creating exactly the situation they claimed forced us to go to war in the first place. . . . No one believes anymore that there were ties in the beginning between the Iraqi regime and Al Qaeda (in fact, their beliefs and their interests were antithetical). But with the now-daily attacks on Americans and others in Iraq, plus a sense that Iraq is becoming the international center for terrorists, even American generals say the old secular Saddam Baathists and the religious Al Qaeda militants are working together. . . . President Bush's starry-eyed rhetoric has changed this week in his speeches; he speaks little of the original purposes of the war, like weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaeda, and instead regales the nation with warnings of a vast metaphysical struggle between "civilization and chaos." . . . The joke around town is that the Bush zealots had all along been scheming to attack Iraq to get all the terrorists in the world to pour in there--to get them all in one place. . . . Finally, the idea is creeping in that, looking at the entire Middle East, the next "solution" will be to put American troops into Israel to fight Hamas and other radical Palestinian groups. . . . Such an act, of course, would pit the United States irrevocably against the entire Arab and Islamic world--and encourage and create anti-American terrorism on a scale yet unseen. . . . In Iraq, American authorities have become so desperate for information about the country they pretend to rule that, after foolishly disbanding the Iraqi army and leaving tens of thousands of men roaming the streets, they are recruiting the hated intelligence agents and torturers of the Saddam Hussein government, the Mukhabarat , to work with us. . . . This administration shows no indication of changing its ways; thus the situation can only grow worse.

posted by Lorenzo 8:26 PM