Fisk is right on again. I remember reading his ’Can’t Blair See that this Country
is About to Explode? Can’t Bush?’ article in August forecasting what is happening now. (http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/080204E.shtml) 6 months or more ago, the antiwar movement predicted with great clarity the events that are transpiring today. For those who’ve been monitoring the war current events are no surprise, as they are the predictable end result in the chain of causality set off by the desire to go to war in Iraq. The rhetoric of Bush and crew has glazed over their view of reality. Just like Vietnam, military leaders are caught between practical assessment (reality of what is going on on the battlefield) versus what their leaders want to hear.
The consequences of this Double Think are that positive results are exaggerated and negative realities whitewashed. The truth does get out; once Fallujah is exposed as the pointless, wanton slaughter of civilians it was (is?), anti-US forces will have yet another rallying cry. Those who weren’t anti-US from Abu Ghraib will be made so with Fallujah. And what is the end result of this war? More US borrowing (forestalling economic unpleasantries to come), lost international credibility (Karl Rove’s magic is limited in that arena), and wasted lives.
Fisk is right on again. I remember reading his ’Can’t Blair See that this Country
is About to Explode? Can’t Bush?’ article in August forecasting what is happening now. (http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/080204E.shtml) 6 months or more ago, the antiwar movement predicted with great clarity the events that are transpiring today. For those who’ve been monitoring the war current events are no surprise, as they are the predictable end result in the chain of causality set off by the desire to go to war in Iraq. The rhetoric of Bush and crew has glazed over their view of reality. Just like Vietnam, military leaders are caught between practical assessment (reality of what is going on on the battlefield) versus what their leaders want to hear.
The consequences of this Double Think are that positive results are exaggerated and negative realities whitewashed. The truth does get out; once Fallujah is exposed as the pointless, wanton slaughter of civilians it was (is?), anti-US forces will have yet another rallying cry. Those who weren’t anti-US from Abu Ghraib will be made so with Fallujah. And what is the end result of this war? More US borrowing (forestalling economic unpleasantries to come), lost international credibility (Karl Rove’s magic is limited in that arena), and wasted lives.