The Five Words I Never Expected to Write

I agree with George Will:

What "forced" America to go to war in 2003 -- the "gathering danger" of weapons of mass destruction -- was fictitious. That is one reason this war will not be fought, at least not by Americans, to the bitter end. The end of the war will, however, be bitter for Americans, partly because the president's decision to visit Iraq without visiting its capital confirmed the flimsiness of the fallback rationale for the war -- the creation of a unified, pluralist Iraq.

After more than four years of war, two questions persist: Is there an Iraq? Are there Iraqis?

Of course, in that last bit, Will provides a small assist for the growing partitioning movement --a "solution" that seems to be burbbling up from the ooze ever more frequently these days:

What we’re really trying to build, in other words, is a road to partition. We’re trying to build a pathway to separation that involves the sort of low-intensity civil war that Iraq is enduring right now. We’re trying to prevent a pathway that is even worse — a high-intensity genocide.

Hmmm.

Of course, as history shows ...

...and Atrios notes, that shit doesn't work.

Meanwhile, in other "partition" news ...

Comments

[eRobin]

Okay. I accept your You Tube Political Science Challenge.

[LYONSPOTTER]

Great artwork here, in remembrance of the 911 tragedy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsF-RiMzGpk

It puts things into the proper perspective.

[L.S./M.F.T..]

Five words that you needn't write, when nine might do better. To whit:

"Can you believe George Will agrees with me?? Finally!"

Sometimes, the parallax view is more fun.