Adam Daifallah - three years older and wiser, well, three years older
So what is a self-respecting neocon to do after watching the American army get stuck for three years in a newly-created failed state? What can you say after so baldly lying your way into a war that other potential allies stand to the side and watch you twist as everything goes to hell? What do you say to yourself that allows you to sleep at night, knowing that people (mostly poorer than you) are out there killing and dying under your orders?
It takes a special kind of person to be able to stare down all of that reality and brush it off like so much biscotti on the sleeve of his Armani. But there are those that are big enough (and thank God!) to do just that - and Adam Daifallah is one such man. Men of such great-heartedness and large-mindedness can see through all of this as the mirage that it is. Would you like to know how he and others like him can do this?
By not admitting that they were ever wrong to begin with: the war was right, but mistakes were made.
Yes, that's right, Paul Bremer and his combat boots fucked up, and fucked up hard. Oh, you were so close, weren't you Adam? You could almost smell the victory before L. Paul handed it away by allowing an insurgency to be born. I mean, who could have possibly known that Saddam Hussein held those disparate ethnic groups together by force and tyranny? And who could have possible foreseen what would happen when that force was released?
Actually lots of people, but it took a special ability (or superpower?) that you and many of the neocons did not have - they didn't have their heads shoved up their ass. These people spent their time reading history and actually looking at the world situation while you spent yours staring dully through the Neocon Spectral Colonics (TM) of your own ideology; fantasizing whatever it is that you guys fantasize about. I'm not going there.
"We create our own reality". Yeah, heh.
It turns out that us peaceniks, not you neocons, were the adults in the room, and you guys were the optimistic dreamers. Weird, eh - the war turned out to be just a sick manifestation of your twisted optimism. That glass, my friend, is half-empty, repeat after me and nobody gets hurt.
But that's not how you see it, is it Adam? No, going to war against the will of most of the thinking world against a country largely disarmed and crippled by a dozen years of trade sanctions, without a thought to the potential problems was not the problem; the problem was poor form, bad followthrough, a shank, a broken tee.
We weren't neocon enough, in short.
Well at least you can still take solace in the meaningless dribblings of Ahmad Chalabi. That's eerily circular if you ask me. But again thanks to the power of the Neocon Spectral Colonics (TM) you can conveniently forget that Ahmad Chalabi is completely full of shit. Gone are the lies about weapons of mass destruction (poof!) and the love that the Iraqi people would feel for their liberators (poof! poof!) that Rumsfeld used to pursue a war on the cheap. These things have conveniently disappeared from your view, so you can assuredly use him as your "man on the ground" in Iraq and indeed, you now see "a corner being turned".
And you guys call us idealists.
It takes a special kind of person to be able to stare down all of that reality and brush it off like so much biscotti on the sleeve of his Armani. But there are those that are big enough (and thank God!) to do just that - and Adam Daifallah is one such man. Men of such great-heartedness and large-mindedness can see through all of this as the mirage that it is. Would you like to know how he and others like him can do this?
By not admitting that they were ever wrong to begin with: the war was right, but mistakes were made.
Yes, that's right, Paul Bremer and his combat boots fucked up, and fucked up hard. Oh, you were so close, weren't you Adam? You could almost smell the victory before L. Paul handed it away by allowing an insurgency to be born. I mean, who could have possibly known that Saddam Hussein held those disparate ethnic groups together by force and tyranny? And who could have possible foreseen what would happen when that force was released?
Actually lots of people, but it took a special ability (or superpower?) that you and many of the neocons did not have - they didn't have their heads shoved up their ass. These people spent their time reading history and actually looking at the world situation while you spent yours staring dully through the Neocon Spectral Colonics (TM) of your own ideology; fantasizing whatever it is that you guys fantasize about. I'm not going there.
"We create our own reality". Yeah, heh.
It turns out that us peaceniks, not you neocons, were the adults in the room, and you guys were the optimistic dreamers. Weird, eh - the war turned out to be just a sick manifestation of your twisted optimism. That glass, my friend, is half-empty, repeat after me and nobody gets hurt.
But that's not how you see it, is it Adam? No, going to war against the will of most of the thinking world against a country largely disarmed and crippled by a dozen years of trade sanctions, without a thought to the potential problems was not the problem; the problem was poor form, bad followthrough, a shank, a broken tee.
We weren't neocon enough, in short.
Well at least you can still take solace in the meaningless dribblings of Ahmad Chalabi. That's eerily circular if you ask me. But again thanks to the power of the Neocon Spectral Colonics (TM) you can conveniently forget that Ahmad Chalabi is completely full of shit. Gone are the lies about weapons of mass destruction (poof!) and the love that the Iraqi people would feel for their liberators (poof! poof!) that Rumsfeld used to pursue a war on the cheap. These things have conveniently disappeared from your view, so you can assuredly use him as your "man on the ground" in Iraq and indeed, you now see "a corner being turned".
And you guys call us idealists.
Well said. It got to the point soon after the invasion that I was constantly wondering what the Right was on to alter their perception of reality so thoroughly.
Common sense isn't quite as common as I once thought.
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Mon Mar 20, 01:06:00 PM