Sunday, June 26, 2005

The U.S. in Iraq: Proudly Negotiating With Terrorists

What Billmon said:
To salvage any ending short of total defeat in Iraq, the Cheney administration must act like those spineless, flip-flopping liberals. They have to negotiate with the terrorists, listening to their demands, trying to understand their grievances and goals -- shit, offering them therapy sessions for all I know. But at the same time, Bush also has to keep up the never-give-an-inch macho act, lest the silent majority finally grasp the dismal truth: Their sons and daughters must go on dying in the quagmire so the neocons can find a way out that doesn't involve losing too much face.

Go read the whole thing. As Billmon points out, the lesson here (which isn't news to some of us) is that by pushing the good-vs.-evil line all along, Bush painted himself into a corner which he now desperately needs to escape. The hope seems to be that internal U.S. bickering will overshadow Bush's duplicity. Needless to say, we shouldn't let that happen.

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