What An Appropriate Headline
US diplomat in Iraq says progress made; country remains gripped by fear
“If there is one word, I would use to sum up the atmosphere in Iraq – on the streets, in the countryside, in the neighborhoods and at the national level – that word would be fear,” Ryan Crocker told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
And if headlines like “Report warns of al-Qaeda terror threat” are any indication they’re trying to make the same progress at home.
I have a film for you: “Iraq in Fragments”. It’s a wonderful documentary that is apolitical which follows the story of a Sunni boy, the Shiite radicals in the south, and the quiet Kurds up north. Truly this documentary is a wonderful cinematic delight.
I *highly* recommend it.
It’s really hard to make sense out of the messages coming out of the pro-war URQs these days.
a) We are in dire danger from Islamist Terrorists domestically and abroad.
b) Mr. Bush’s War on Terror has been a huge success, and we need to be spending more money and more lives doing exactly what we’ve been doing, only more of it.
It reminds me of a client I once had who was dealing in an extremely low margin business. When I finally crunched all his numbers, I discovered that he was actually LOSING money on each sale. When I pointed this out to him, he thought a moment and said grimly: “Well, I’m just going to have to work harder and increase those sales.”