No one seems to be writing opinion pieces quite the way I would, so I decided to do it myself.

The name? Taverns are places where one goes to discuss the interesting events and things in the world, so this is my tavern.

I will offer my views on politics, economics, and whatever else strikes my fancy.
I will occasionally publish the entire article from another journal for purposes of causing discussion.

 

U.S. Iraq Policy for Dummies

More rather insightful analysis of the Bush administrations' Iraqi policy. Here is a sample:

"The Pentagon strategists, you see, never really thought through the post-Iraq phase of the war. For one thing, they just assumed they'd find the dread WMDs, thus legitimizing their invasion; egg on the face time. They're also now forced to recognize that they might have won the battle -- and broke the spine of Saddam's cruel regime -- but they may well lose the war, both inside Iraq and in the Arab region in general.

Q. "How can they lose the war? There is no military rival that can stand up to them, either inside Iraq or outside.

A. "What U.S. officials are learning, to their surprise and horror, is that you can have the strongest military in the world and still not be able to control the population, especially when that population thinks you're on their sacred homeland for nefarious purposes.

And the U.S., clueless as usual, continues to permit things that are anathema to the population. Such as: permitting missionaries into the country to attempt to Christianize the Muslim citizenry; Bush has approved Franklin Graham (Billy's son) and his missionaries being let loose in Iraq. Graham on several occasions has denounced Islam as a "very evil and wicked religion," making Muslims just a tad suspicious of the man."

Read the whole article: U.S. Iraq Policy for Dummies from Scoop out of New Zealand.

I don't think that this is a prediction of disaster for the administration. It is, instead, a description of some of the problems they face and how the current situation was reached. If you follow only the US media this information either isn't there or is presented in such glowing tones that even the problems appear as successes.

Do I think that all we are getting from US TV and the rest of the US media is propaganda and cheerleading? Yeah. Don't you?
posted by Richard at 2:52 AM