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Not a VFR reader
“Yes, the insurgency is very violent, but you can beat insurgencies not just militarily,” Condoleezza Rice told reporters during a one-day trip to Iraq. “You can beat them having a political alternative that is strong,” and in which all Iraqis are invested.
Yeah, but you can’t have a strong political system if 50 Iraqis are being blown up every day and if oil pipelines and other infrastructure are being sabotaged every day and if the political leaders of Iraq can only function inside U.S.-guarded green zones. Meaning that you can only have a strong politcal system if you defeat the insurgency … oh, well, what’s the point of repeating myself? Evidently we don’t have the ability to defeat the insurgency, and Rice and the rest of the administration are simply making the best of it. But that means continual lying, doesn’t it? Email entry |