June 17, 2004
Schoolyard Bully
An even better analysis of the failure of the Bush Administration's Iraq policies comes from Joe Klein of Time Magaine, who wrote on May 29:
We are still recovering from the last week of April, when the Abu Ghraib photos were revealed and the U.S. military chose not to fight the Islamic radicals in Fallujah (a retreat compounded by last week's decision not to pursue Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army). Taken together, those events represent a coherent pattern of behavior—that of a schoolyard bully, who tortures the weak and runs away from the strong.
The truth is, we are in full-scale retreat, both politically and militarily. Bush believes that Iraq is the front line in the war on terrorism, but his Administration just declared a truce with the men he thinks of as terrorists and is now turning security over to local militias. "Stay the course" really means "run away."
Posted by glenn
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