Sunday, May 09, 2004

Posted here Sunday, May 09, 2004 at 10:44:43 AM     The article in the new yorker by Hersh may be the one that keeps the undoing from knitting itself back together. No, the reality is probably too strong, but this clarifies the direction of the coming breakdown, like the first crack in the dam.   http://newyorker.com/fact/content/?040517fa_fact2   ********

Posted here Sunday, May 09, 2004 at 10:06:54 AM     Pointed to by www.talkingpointsmemo.com http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4933882/ Leave process aside: the results are plain. On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq—troop strength, international support, the credibility of exiles, de-Baathification, handling Ayatollah Ali Sistani—Washington's assumptions and policies have been wrong. By now most have been reversed, often too late to have much effect. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw in the eyes of much of the world. Whether he wins or loses in November, George W. Bush's legacy is now clear: the creation of a poisonous atmosphere of anti-Americanism around the globe. I'm sure he takes full responsibility. ********