Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,
attempting in vain to defend his administration's failed Iraq policy:
Some have described the situation in Iraq as a tightening noose, noting that "time is not on our side"and that "morale is down." Others have described a "very dangerous" turn of events and are "extremely concerned."
Who are they that have expressed these concerns? In fact, these are the exact words of terrorists discussing Iraq -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his associates -- who are describing their own situation and must be watching with fear the progress that Iraq has made over the past three years.
The terrorists seem to recognize that they are losing in Iraq. I believe that history will show that to be the case.
Fortunately, history is not made up of daily headlines, blogs on Web sites or the latest sensational attack. History is a bigger picture, and it takes some time and perspective to measure accurately.
History, for Rumsfeld, would ideally be made up of neatly organized DOD press releases. Yet the legacy of this war will include the blogs. The internet has empowered the citizens of this country to preserve facts in the face of a relentless propaganda campaign. Where the administration has sought to cover-up and hide the reality of this conflict, blogs have stepped up to counter their revisionist history. As the scribes of a new millennium, we preserve in pixelated form every folly, every lie, and every death Rumsfeld wishes was overshadowed by false claims of victory. Ultimately, it will be the truth-seekers, on and off the internet, that will shape the legacy of this war as an ill-conceived fraud perpetrated on the American public, as an endless war grossly mismanaged by those who breached the public trust.
Comments are closed on this story.