On the front page of today's NYTimes, 'Analysis is Bleak on Iraq's Future' (2/3/07), we're told what most of us have known for some time, and some of us predicted before Bush decided to invade Iraq and 'topple' Saddam: Bush's War on Terror is lost, terror has won, hands down.
Since Bush decided to wage what is really a War On Crime, what he insisted was called for in the so-called post 9/11 world, we've been fighting other people's enemies and helping other people (and Iran) get more power. Unfortunately Bush failed to comprehend that criminals were likely to continue waging crimes, and so we got schunckered into helping them out, committing their foul deeds for them, bombing, for example, wedding parties that someone had some grudge against, arresting innocents who counted as 'bounty bodies' or who had enemies in American-listened to places, and following the lead of the Dark Force of Cheney who so embodies evil that he's seduced quite a few others to join the dark side.
And now we have learned ( ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36391 ) that our full armaments of war have been called on to help radical hothead and Saddam wanna-be Muktada al Sadr kill his Shite neighbors who don't agree with his particular group, and who are thus undermining his surge to power by getting along with Sunnis. Once again our troops become the unwitting carriers of evil, shooting whomever we're pointed at, and empowering all the wrong guys
Yet again American and British forces have been fooled into killing Muktada's (and the Iranian mullah's) enemies. It seems this kind of thing is 'business as usual' in Iraq, where there isn't just sectarian violence, and clan violence, and violence violence, there is Muktada-points-America-to-his-pesky-enemies-violence. The Iraqi so-called government can always direct our naive yet confident military leaders to do their grave digging for them. Can our leaders get any stupider?