Peters: War Is Going Great
Here’s the gung-ho, upbeat version of what’s happening in Iraq, from retired military man and right-wing columnist Ralph Peters, writing in yesterday’s New York Post: Winning big. Basically, he asserts that everything is going fine. Sure, some people on our side are dying; that’s war. Overall, he thinks the strategy is sound. Worst-case scenario, he says, is that we have to lay siege to Baghdad for a few weeks while we think up some innovative ways to end their resistance. Um, what innovative ways would those be? And do they involve a few hundred thousand Iraqi civilians dying? Something tells me that might cut severely into the profits of Halliburton’s FTD division, which I understand has been awarded the contract to supply the flowers that grateful Iraqis are going to be showering on their liberators.
March 26th, 2003 at 6:38 am
But then again, people always need funeral flowers. So it might not be so bad after all.
March 26th, 2003 at 9:38 am
A perfect example of how the media is a bunch of wimps, and over react and over dramatize everything.