Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
Wishful thinking
From an MSRNC article on the deployment of the USS John C. Stennis carrier group to the Persian Gulf:
Some among the audience of Dubai-based diplomats and analysts complained that American wars in the Middle East were already threatening the region’s stability and asked Burns to sort out Iraq and the Israel-Palestinian conflict before turning attention to Iran.
“What we are not interested in is another war in the region,” Mohammed al-Naqbi, who heads the Gulf Negotiations Center, told [U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs Nicholas] Burns. “Iraq is your problem, not the problem of the Arabs. You destroyed a country that had institutions. You handed that country to Iran. Now you are crying to Europe and the Arabs to help you out of this mess.”
You see, the people and countries with the most direct stake in what happens in Iraq clearly see what the Bush administration either cannot, or will not see - that the Iraq debacle is the Pretzeldunce’s fault, no one else’s, and that it is Bush’s responsibility to clean up his own mess. Yet all the Bushies care about is nuking Iran. God help us all.
