is absolutely impossible if there is no clear objective of what you actually want to achieve.
If the propaganda tales used to justify the illegal aggression on Iraq were still in operation, the Americans could declare victory and go home.
While there might have been some people who believed in the Great Iraqi WMD Threat at the time, the American occupation has had just about enough time to assure that there won’t be any intercontinental missile attacks on the homeland originating from Iraq by now. The search for WMD in Iraq has finally been closed down officially, since it has now fulfilled its purpose of barely keeping Bush in cheating distance from the White House.
So now we are told the illegal occupation needs to continue to assure The Great Iraqi Democracy.
That is probably just another propaganda tale, but let’s just take a couple of lines to tear it to bits.
Democracy is a great idea. However, it is really none of America’s business how Iraq is governed. This is certainly no excuse for invading or occupying other countries.
And if anything, America needs to introduce democracy at home first. With two presidential elections in a row tainted by all sorts of cheating I won’t go into in detail right now, America is certainly in no position to lecture any other country about democracy.
Okay, my point here is that if Bush keeps shifting the goal posts, the job can’t be done. You would need to know what the job is to have a goal that, when achieved, lets you declare victory.
And the fuzzy goal of “Democracy in Iraq” is far away from that.
Welcome to permanent war.
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Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at January 19, 2005 08:30 PM | TrackBack