[Peace-discuss] Imperial Arrogance

[Morton K. Brussel]

When the most powerful military force in the history of the universe  
throws up its hands and effectively cries uncle, it shows how bad  
things are in the Kafkaesque maelstrom of Iraq.  It also shows how  
hopeless this adventure was that should have been brain-dead and  
stillborn from the start - but you'd never know it from the head-in- 
the-sand comments of the "stay-the-coursers" in Washington that  
includes the president, vice-president and Democrat leadership even  
when their language changes.  They're willing to fine-tune the  
tactical management of the operation as they're now about to do but  
never willing to give up the prize they've already invested so much  
in and can't afford to give up because the cost of doing it is so  
great.  It's what journalist Robert Fisk meant when he said "the US  
must get out (of Iraq), they will get out, and they can't get out."

This is just a small excerpt, one amongst many pithy ones, from a  
long article by the indefatigable unembeded essayist Stephen  
Lendman.  --mkb

His article, entitled The Price of Imperial Arrogance, is at ZNet:

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=11441
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