Only a totally "Blind Bushie" would not see that the wheels are
coming off in Iraq.
Indeed, a cynic might say that the only thing that is holding Iraq
together is the hatred that all Iraqis have for the American
occupation.
Thank goodness, I'm not a cynic.
In the Sunni Triangle the US military is promising a massacre in
retaliation for the killing of the four American contractors.
In the south the Shia radicals are battling the occupation as well.
ALL OF IRAQ IS A POWER KEG FOR THE OCCUPATION AUTHORITY!
ANY MASSIVE KILLING OF IRAQIS BY AMERICANS, OR OTHERS IN THE
OCCUPATION, COULD SEND LITERALLY MILLIONS OF IRAQI PROTESTERS INTO
THE STREETS.
Can 100,000 Americans hold off 26 million outraged Iraqis?
Well, this sounds like the stuff of fable and epic--but alas, this is
not the Golden Age of Epic Poetry.
Will the occupation "win" if it massacres 10,000 Iraqi protestors in
the next few months? Will that "do the trick?"
Or will the Americans be forced to fight their way out of Baghdad
even as they fought their way in?
Shades of "Chinese" Gordon trapped in the Sudan at Kartoum!
Shades of the "evacuation" of Siagon, from the very roof tops!
Will Dubya and the Pentagon Likud suddenly decided that, if we are
loosing anyway, let's level the Iraqi cities and kill millions on the
way out!
This is the modern Sharonist thinking in action.
This is what was called, in ancient times, a Pyrric Victory.
History, not Poetry. Redux.
