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Monday, February 28, 2005
I see we've have THE DEADLIEST BOMBING IN IRAQ SINCE THE FALL OF SADDAM, and the media is saying, Thank God. A week of Bush doing well with the Europeans was beginning to wear thin with them.
The insurgents needed it too, with everyone in sight questioning if they really mattered in the long run, even HRC.
Something interesting though, I thought. This is, of course, the sort of thing anti-big media paranoids notice: When I saw the headline on AOL, my first thought was "inside or outside the Sunni triangle?" So I clicked on the link, which took me to the news page. Again, bombing in "Iraq." It took three mouse clicks to confirm that, yeah, it was Baghdad again. Not that it's any less painful or tragic for those involved, but for the outside world, it makes a difference. Not to give the bad guys any ideas, but when this happens in Basra I'll start biting my nails. When it happens in the heart of Baathist territory, I'm not so worried about the future of Iraq because in this one area eventually either the locals will rise up and slaughter any foreigners and known Baathists in an effort to make the attacks go away or they'll accept their own slaughter for the good of the cause till Baghdad and a few other cities have been so reduced as to no longer matter - troubled ghettoes of sorts. Neither is pretty, but both will allow the eventual flowering of democracy in larger Iraq.
posted by gbarto at 7:08 AM
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