Sorenson on the History of US Involvement in the Mideast
Columnist and self-described “liberal iconoclast” Harley Sorensen has this nice little historical summing up in today’s SFGate.com: Occupational hazard. A sample:
We won the war, but will we win the peace? If you believe George W. Bush, who is saying all the right things, we will. Bush is saying that Iraq’s wealth belongs to Iraqis. And, he says, the U.S. will stay in Iraq “not a day longer than necessary,” these words spoken by Bush’s puppy dog, Tony Blair.
Unfortunately, Bush himself sometimes seems a bit dyslexic in his public statements. If he says Iraq’s wealth belongs to Iraqis, what he really means is, the Iraqis will get what’s left after we skim what we want. As for when we leave Iraq, “not a day longer than necessary” means, in Bush-speak, when hell freezes over.
