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March 16, 2003

On the eve of war

No matter what you think of the upcoming war, you should read what Salam in Iraq has to say in his blog. (It may load very slowly, obviously he's getting a lot of hits today). Somehow, this makes more sense than anything coming from any of the governments (U.S., Iraqi, British, French, you name it). Why does it seem that the U.S. suddenly gets interested in Iraq again when the current president is facing serious problems at home, only to forget about it a few months later. We have a very powerful military, and a lot of brave soldiers, but we never seem to figure out how to conduct foreign policy in a way that makes sense. The truth is that almost no one in the U.S. really cares that much about the people in Iraq, no matter what they say. Most of the anti-war faction doesn't seem too interested in how Saddam treats his people, and most of the pro-war people seem to feel that "we must destroy the country to save it". Tell me, how are things in Afghanistan now? Good, bad, indifferent? To be honest I don't know and you probably don't either. We as a nation have the attention span of a carp.

Posted by markj at March 16, 2003 06:13 PM

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