:: Netmarcos' Notes ::

:: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 ::

Please read Robert L. Pollock's review of David L Phillips' new book "Losing Iraq"The Armchair Analyst

...Mr. Phillips comes to his subject with more venom than fair-mindedness: In all seriousness he compares the Bush administration's "jihadist vocabulary" to Osama bin Laden's. Still, just a little contact with actual Iraqis might have prevented such silly lines as: "The first days of liberation were an unmitigated disaster."

Really? As in, not mitigated by the fact that the worst mass murderer in Arab history had been deposed? The Iraqis I spoke to at a mass grave south of the capital during the first of my two trips to Iraq (May 2003 and June 2004) certainly didn't think so. I heard some of them surreally but sincerely express their desire for Iraq to become America's 51st state, even as they sorted through bits of bone and clothing for evidence of their loved ones.

:: Mark 5:04 PM [+] ::
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