Jeff jacoby takes advantage of the cruel lull in Britney Spears' outrages to proclaim that Iraq has finally turned a corner on the road to becoming a freeper utopia.
Oh he hedges his bets and declines to reiterate his dreadfully naive "these are heady days for those of us in the war party" nonsense...nonetheless an entirely false sense of relief permeates today's column.
But don't you worry, Jeff's smug self assurance is as ephemeral as any flickering fuse in Tikrit.
I mean, so what if Bush invaded Iraq seemingly to give passive aggressive nerds like Jeff Jacoby fodder for their own internal war epic?
Well...it is costing lives for no reason other than to give a president with a twenty nine percent approval rating a feeling of manly accomplishment.
We ought not to forget that.
The fact of the matter is, Jeff and his wingnut pals can call Iraq a triumph all they want just as Daily Kos and Eric Alterman can offer up cogent reasons to call it a failure.
But what no one can do is generate a sane reason to stay.
Frankly, given cost in American lives and the fast failing US Dollar, the only reason to prolong the agony is because the fantasist wing of the GOP needs a another war, this time against Iran.
Very franky, at some point, the current situation will no longer be able to support serial fantasization as policy. What happens when we reach that point I do not know...but the current policy is not sustainable.
"Heady days for the war party" indeed.
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