Conservatives jumping ship
It's always a little scary to have people who you've always disagreed with start agreeing with you, but that's what is happening with our policy in Iraq. It has become such an obvious disaster that even conservatives are jumping ship - and that's happening with increasing frequency.
The latest is Bruce Fein who not only agrees with me, he even used the exact words I did the other day to describe Bush’s speech: “Fairy Tales.”
Here’s some tidbits:
The flagrant illegitimacy of Mr. Brahimi's appointees will push Iraq into upheaval and civil war on June 30, making chimerical the unprecedented elections planned for next January.
Mr. Bush lamely argued democracy will flower in post-June 30 Iraq because full sovereignty "will give Iraqis a direct interest in the success of their own government. Iraqis will know that when they build a school or repair a bridge, they're not working for the Coalition Provisional Authority, they are working for themselves."
The post-June 30 government of Iraq, however, will be Mr. Brahimi's government, not a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Iraqis will no more be working for themselves under the Brahimi regime than do Myanmar's forced labor battalions or Fidel Castro's sugar brigades toil for themselves. Iraqis who will risk that last full measure of devotion to defend the post-June 30 appointees can be counted on one hand with fingers left over.
Building nations and architecting limited and representative governments are exceptionally complex and baffling arts. To believe headway is made by simple-minded celebrations of freedom and denunciations of tyranny is to believe in fairy tales.
The latest is Bruce Fein who not only agrees with me, he even used the exact words I did the other day to describe Bush’s speech: “Fairy Tales.”
Here’s some tidbits:
The flagrant illegitimacy of Mr. Brahimi's appointees will push Iraq into upheaval and civil war on June 30, making chimerical the unprecedented elections planned for next January.
Mr. Bush lamely argued democracy will flower in post-June 30 Iraq because full sovereignty "will give Iraqis a direct interest in the success of their own government. Iraqis will know that when they build a school or repair a bridge, they're not working for the Coalition Provisional Authority, they are working for themselves."
The post-June 30 government of Iraq, however, will be Mr. Brahimi's government, not a government of the people, by the people, for the people. Iraqis will no more be working for themselves under the Brahimi regime than do Myanmar's forced labor battalions or Fidel Castro's sugar brigades toil for themselves. Iraqis who will risk that last full measure of devotion to defend the post-June 30 appointees can be counted on one hand with fingers left over.
Building nations and architecting limited and representative governments are exceptionally complex and baffling arts. To believe headway is made by simple-minded celebrations of freedom and denunciations of tyranny is to believe in fairy tales.
posted by Zack at 7:22 AM
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