Rant of the Week

The Farce

It is quite amazing how many people who never admitted there was anything wrong with the original plan to invade Iraq now claim that the surge has fixed it. Even better, John McCain insists we are "on the precipice of winning a major victory against radical Islamic extremism.” That's an absolutely amazing statement since it has always been clear that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with "Islamic extremism" and everything to do with "I am the king of the world and I'm sitting on scads of oil". It's almost as if America is now in the business of creating its own enemies.

It would be more seemly for McCain to declare that America has destroyed Iraq and in so doing, incidentally, removed a really awful dictator from the face of the earth, at the cost of a trillion dollars, while doing virtually nothing to diminish the growth of extremism in other Islamic dictatorships like Egypt and Saudi Arabia and Syria.