Pic by Kristina Buceatchi.
Stay the course? What course?
Duhbya says he won't pull out. Most people wish George Sr. had.
Fresh from his triumphal visit to Baghdad -- a place so dangerous he had to sneak in without even telling the Iraqi prime minister -- George W. Bush is full of new resolve to stay the course in his open-ended "global war on terror." That leaves the rest of us to wonder, in sadness and frustration, just what that course might be and where on earth it can possibly lead.
This is a "war" in which the United States drops two 500-pound bombs with the express intent of assassinating the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, a group that wouldn't have existed if Bush hadn't decided to invade.
Iraq is just one theater in Bush's "war." Elsewhere, Afghanistan is once again ablaze as the resurgent Taliban counterattacks. Somalia is coming under the sway of an Islamic militia that may harbor al-Qaeda militants. America's popularity in the world continues to fall.
But [the smirking little squirt] forges ahead, trying vainly to kill a poisonous, retrograde ideology with bullets and bombs. His "war" is self-perpetuating, and no one even knows what victory would look like. Long after he's gone, we'll still be looking for a way to end the mess he began.
This is a "war" in which the United States drops two 500-pound bombs with the express intent of assassinating the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, a group that wouldn't have existed if Bush hadn't decided to invade.
Iraq is just one theater in Bush's "war." Elsewhere, Afghanistan is once again ablaze as the resurgent Taliban counterattacks. Somalia is coming under the sway of an Islamic militia that may harbor al-Qaeda militants. America's popularity in the world continues to fall.
But [the smirking little squirt] forges ahead, trying vainly to kill a poisonous, retrograde ideology with bullets and bombs. His "war" is self-perpetuating, and no one even knows what victory would look like. Long after he's gone, we'll still be looking for a way to end the mess he began.
- Eugene Robinson in the WaComPo.
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