Monday, June 30, 2003
posted by Mooraq at 9:16 AM
Notice
Less stories, more quality
I love to keep this blog, but life and work keep interfering with it. As you may have noticed, lately I haven't been posting anything.
In the future I will try to keep up with some postings if I can, until the moment where I will have more spare time to devote to the blog (I suppose when I retire).
posted by Mooraq at 9:12 AM
Iraquagmire
The war was won, the peace is in the process to be lost
Doing the Cassandra is never pleasant. Predicting things to go wrong always poses an ethical dilemma: if they do you surely cannot feel good about it.
Unfortunately this seems to be the case so far in Iraq. The US has won hands down the war just to discover that creating a democratic Iraq will take more than smart bombs and firepower.
Rummy has declared Iraq's case closed and is no longer interested. Powell is his usual powerless self, his role has basically been taken over by Condoleeza. And Bush is too busy celebrating winning the war and collecting fat purses of money to really talk about things that are not going so well. Bremer is doing a decent job given his limited resources but he does not have enough money or men to really make a difference.
The results may be explosive, if Iraq is not fixed in a few months, I predict much more violence which could create a vicious circle of self-destruction. And Iraq cannot be safely forgotten as Afghanistan.
In the meantime, does anybody wonder where the heck is Saddam?
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