AND THAT’S THE WAY IT IS…
Compounding atrocity with inertia.
It is a fetid space indeed inside that nutshell, but — in a nutshell — this snippet from a Q&A piece stands as a sage summation:
Have we done something that can’t be undone in Iraq?
Iraq is already undone. Remember this: There is nothing in Iraq that constitutes a genuine threat to the United States of America. Iraq is purely a domestic war. It’s a war that’s being fought right here in America. As soon as our politicians decide there’s nothing to be gained politically from staying in Iraq, we’ll cut and run. We’ll dump Iraq like we dumped Vietnam.
Haven’t we reached that point? Or gotten close?
No. There are still too many politicians in D.C. who’ve invested too much political capital into Iraq. The American people have to get completely fed up with the war, and we’re not there yet. The majority of Americans are frustrated and don’t like the war but it’s a superficial frustration. Right now, we have these misleading statistics. People don’t realize that April was the bloodiest month in Iraq in the last seven months. The surge is over. It’s lost. It’s gone. Every benchmark of success the surge was based on has collapsed. Source
A 21st century law of diminishing returns: The more mass media outlets we have, the less the masses appear to know.
