No snark.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Please read this.
Two of the seven authors of this piece were killed yesterday. Another was shot in the head before it was printed last month. Now, I don't mean to suggest in any way that there is anything suspect about the death of these soldiers. I just find it a tragedy.
The best show on TV, ("The Wire". Duh.) Did a piece on "juking the stats."
Al Sadr's militia are now counted as our allies instead of our opponents. If we're constantly redefining what "success" means, than we can continually justify continued tragedy as progress.
Ethnic cleansing is the polite way of saying religion-based pogrom. My dear friend Flounder will come after me for saying this, but I think a secular Iraq was much less a threat to its neighbors, and to us, than an Iraq ripped apart by religious zealotry.
Two of the seven authors of this piece were killed yesterday. Another was shot in the head before it was printed last month. Now, I don't mean to suggest in any way that there is anything suspect about the death of these soldiers. I just find it a tragedy.
The best show on TV, ("The Wire". Duh.) Did a piece on "juking the stats."
"Making robberies into larcenies. Making rapes disappear. You juke the stats and majors become colonels."
Al Sadr's militia are now counted as our allies instead of our opponents. If we're constantly redefining what "success" means, than we can continually justify continued tragedy as progress.
Ethnic cleansing is the polite way of saying religion-based pogrom. My dear friend Flounder will come after me for saying this, but I think a secular Iraq was much less a threat to its neighbors, and to us, than an Iraq ripped apart by religious zealotry.
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