Post Mortem

This piece is a thoughtful reflection on the post-war anti-war movement:

[The Lincoln Plawg]: Having failed to stop the Iraq war, does that mean that we just give up? Of course not. Here, as the old saying has it, the best is the enemy of the good. By despairing at being unable to do the impossible, we are distracted from doing what we can.

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Mail Time in Utopia

The mailman just drove by. Under a dull white sky with a gentle wind blowing out of the south bending the limbs of the oaks and elms, with the morning doves cooing in the canopy and strutting on the lawn, the mailman drove by as he does every day.

Sheltered from the chaos and stupidity of adventure and war and death and starvation and sickness in the world around, the clock tick of suburbia is the mailman and the garbage man and the coming and going of the kids to school. We are so sheltered here in our happiness and our safety, so sheltered in our little warm utopia.

Excuse me, I think I'll go check the mail.

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Not Good Signs

Now that antiwar voices have been stifled and the neocons are basking in the glory of the mother of all liberations in Iraq, there are a few distressing indications of the future may hold for US foreign policy.

They looted the Ministry of Planning. They looted the Ministry of Education. They looted the Ministries of Irrigation, Industry, and Foreign Affairs. They looted the Ministry of Information (that bastion of truth). They ransacked hospitals. They burned libraries. They trashed the Archeological Museum in Baghdad and the museum in Mosul. [Fisk/Ministries] [Fisk/Libraries]

All this while US forces sat by and watched and maintained a strong force to prevent the looting of the Ministry of Interior, which is where the oil fields were governed, which is where the oil fields will be governed. While all these other places were sacked and looted and burned, US forces protected only the oil.

And the pundits and press secretaries and spokesmen and Secretaries and Generals poo-poo the notion that it's all about oil.

At least the Iraqis can look for hope to the generosity heaped by the US upon the rebuilding of Afghanistan. Oh. Wait. Maybe not.

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