Thankfully, violence in Iraq is down, way down. The Financial Times has a headline: "US reports ‘phenomenal’ drop in Iraq violence."
This is fantastic news, even if its real meaning is pretty hard to understand at this point.
Today's NY Times has two articles that reveal the absolute moral bankruptcy of our war in Iraq.
In an op-ed, the journalist Annia Ciezadlo recalls spending Thanksgiving in Baghdad in 2003:
That night, President Bush flew to the air base at Baghdad International Airport. We saw pictures of him later, serving Thanksgiving dinner to American soldiers, posing like a waiter with a great big Ali Sheesh on a tray. He never left the base. “You are defeating the terrorists here in Iraq,” he told the troops, “so we don’t have to face them in our own country.” An Iraqi friend once told me it was that line about fighting in Iraq to make America safer that turned his adoration of Mr. Bush into hatred.
The front page article is about the number of foreign fighters in Iraq. It's tiny.
More than 25,000 inmates are in American detention centers in Iraq. Of those, only about 290, or some 1.2 percent, are foreigners, military officials say. They contend that all of the detainees either are suspected of insurgent activity or are an “imperative threat” to security.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead so we can 'fight them over there.' Insurgents are not al Qaeda. The vast majority of those we are fighting are people who don't like an occupying force or partisans fighting for political power as a new Iraq tries to rise from the ashes. They were never a threat to the United States.
We fought a war because of oil, and our tank of moral superiority is running on empty.
very interesting, but I don't agree with you
Idetrorce
Posted by: Idetrorce | December 15, 2007 at 12:15 PM