Letters to the Editor
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of all people....
how could my beloved Gary Kamiya, start writing about 9/11 with relation to Iraq [it was understandable after 9/11 that Americans wanted to lash out at the enemy]
I know he doesn't conflate these things in his mind, really, it's a slip of the pen.
Try as I might, I cannot see either the Afghan or the Iraq war as authentic reactions to 9/11. Too much has been written and proven about how 9/11 was used as a pretext to launch existing planned wars. I've spoken before about the Likudisation of US politics under Bush/Cheney and the neocon regime. Similarly nobody really believes that the Kadima-launched Lebanon war wasn't an off the shelf plan by Dan Halutz to liquidate hezbollah at the first excuse or should I say opportunity.
They believed Chalhabi's promises of gold and petals if they toppled Saddam, they tried desperately to link him to 9/11 and Al-qaeda, until Al-Qaeda obliged creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. When I watch Bush being defensive or delusional about Iraq (it's one or the other) I think to myself:
"could even this man's most ardent admirers, really believe in their heart of hearts that he's intellecutally coherent about this? that cometh the hour cometh the man?"
I mean, maybe his most ardent admirers, but luckily for the rest of us, his ratings are tanking further every day
The people who brought you the Iraq show supposedly because of 9/11 have another production in the pipeline called "Iran the sequel", but congress is waking up and especially the GOP, these things are viral and have a tipping point, all it will take is some large insurgent success and the US public will lose the will to hang around. Both these wars will end in retreat as they make no sense, and at the moment serve only as a figleaf to bolster Dubyya's brittle but crumbling sense of self.