| Friday, April 11, 2003 |
 | Meanwhile, back on the more tiresome business of getting your war off, an interesting article on the development of US strategy here, although Slate loses points by allowing this hilarious balls-up to get through the editors:
Celebrate the six-year-old boy -- he exists, there are thousands of him, he is running down a street in Karbala right now holding a candy bar -- who will not grow up in a world where his father, and his uncle, and his cousin are taken away by anonymous men one night and never come back.
Clearly the subeditors failed to add "in the employ of Saddam Hussein" after "anonymous men". Otherwise Gary Kamiya is skipping a few steps. There is no magic faraway tree growing in Baghdad. There is no democratic government in place, nor any guarantee that said democratic government will be put in place. There is no decision on who is ultimately or even immediately going to run Iraq, beyond Jay Garner, or what their attitude to fathers, uncles and cousins might be. Given that the most successful piece of US-backed régime change thus far ended us up with General Pinochet, maybe we should be a little more circumspect.
Yes, I'm glad that Saddam Hussein's grip on Iraq appears to have been destroyed. Thank you, Mr Bush, thank you Tony Blair, other NBC-broadcast obsequies. I accept that every reservation I had about the wisdom or the justice of this war was utterly wrong. I am boycotting French wine, German sausage and "Russians" by Sting, and eating only tapas. I am now eagerly awaiting the whole thing not turning to shit. Anyone got a roadmap for that? The not-turning-to-shit roadmap? THat would be lovely, thanks.
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