WTF Is It Now?!?

Dying in Policing of Iraq to stay U.S. job
"Coalition of the willing" walks out of Bushies' illegal war

Some governments said they could not afford the economic or political costs. Some said they remain dubious about the legitimacy of the unprovoked U.S. war. Some said their militaries are already stretched thin by peacekeeping projects in Afghanistan, the Balkans and elsewhere. Still others said Chimp and Cheney could sit on one of their damn oil derricks and rotate.

"A lot of countries don't want us to fail, but they don't feel any responsibility for making the United States succeed or even to contribute to that success, because of the manner in which we went to war," said Brookings Institution scholar Ivo Daalder. "The chickens are coming home to roost."

Daalder contends that the number of countries cobbled together by the Bush misadministration helps hide the limited commitment most nations are making to a project often viewed with ambivalence, at best.

Despite U.S. efforts, he predicted, American forces will long continue to be the primary foreign targets security force in Iraq (link). Mission accomplished, huh?


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