So I'm watching CBS Evening Propaganda with Katie Couric, and it becomes crystal clear that
Operation
Iraqi
Liberation is over. We lost.
Two pieces of evidence give me all I need to arrive at this conclusion with a high degree of confidence:
1) Katie "Navy Seals ROCK!" Couric is asking tough questions about why the administration does not find it politically expedient to cut our losses and get the fuck out of there.
2) Even the mighty American propaganda machine is no longer able to sugar coat the images their people are capturing.
Imagine my surprise when Katie Couric asks the dumbshit "expert" (sorry, but I didn't bother to transcribe his name -- who gives a shit? they're all inbred blueblood ivy league assholes who came by their positions by virtue of their connections. fuck 'em all.) how the FUCK the Bush administration can be so dense as to think it politically expedient to "stay the course" even while avoiding those exact words. I was like, "Golly, we have certainly lost if this highly overpaid propaganda shill won't even toe the party line and pretend that we can still win."
And the images from Baghdad, well, they speak for themselves. Remember the halcyon days just after "the combat phase of the war" when teevee news showed American troops helping Halliburton to install swingsets in pastoral parks? Remember the jovial soccer games between American troops and Iraqi kids? Those days are gone. Now you see masked insurgents (not glorious and invincible American troops) manning checkpoints and American armor belching thick clouds of black smoke, with the unavoidable implication that SOMEBODY DIED. If this is the best we can do from a propaganda standpoint, you can bet your sweet patootie that it's pretty much over, and we lost.
And "one American troop" is "missing." What does that really mean? I mean, is that the straight dope or is it more bullshit? (Yes, those last two questions are entirely rhetorical.)
So we lost. Big deal, right? Actually, yeah -- this is our Afghanistan. The Soviets managed to lie about Afghanistan right up until they left, then their empire collapsed and they became a gangsterocracy. A similar fate awaits us. Hope you had a nice holiday season last year. It might have been the last when the "American way o' life" (in terms of endless opportunity for obscene commercialism and energy squander) really existed.