Condoleezza Rice

It has reached my ears that Condoleezza Rice has announced that the Surge is starting to work. What exactly it is accomplishing was not specified. Nevertheless, I found the news heartening. When the Intelligence community organizes an overthrow, whether overt or covert, they like to control and orchestrate both sides of the conflict so as to ensure the desired result and thus it was with Iraq. The U.S. marshaled the Coalition of the Totally Willing and the Saudis their al-Qaida proxies. The end result was a slam dunk and the pronouncement of "Mission Accomplished" was given in good faith under the circumstances as they were perceived by the controlling forces at the time.

Of course, they forgot to take the Iraqis into consideration; probably because there aren't any. What we thought of as Iraqis were actually inmates in a macrocosm of Gitmo with Saddam as the warden. When we freed the prisoners, it was quite natural that they no longer thought of themselves as a collective, but as warring factions with mutually exclusive imperatives. When they hear us talk of democracy for the Iraqis, there isn't a dry seat in the house. The resulting civil war was inevitable and "all the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again." I doubt that we shall obtain a better result than they did.