from this morning's new york times:
Despite the steady loss of American life in Iraq, the continued search for Mr. Hussein and the administration's failure so far to uncover any caches of banned weapons, analysts said the bombing by itself was unlikely to reshape public opinion or the administration's approach.
"I'm not sure this is of a sufficient magnitude to make Americans stop and say, `What are we doing there?' " said Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a research organization in Washington.
"But if this kind of thing continues, if it seems to be becoming a morass, that could become a problem for the president."
(emphasis added)
i love that first paragraph. sure, every day someone new dies in iraq, saddam and his alleged weapons (the reason we invaded) are no where to be found, but this bombing by itself won't effect public opinion. but wait... doesn't the whole first half of that sentence show that this bombing is not "by itself." in fact, it is yet another of a list of reasons to believe iraq is turning into a major disaster.
if this, combined with all of the other things is not of "sufficient magnitude" to make people wonder why we are there, is there anything that ever will?
"becoming a morass"?!?!? i wonder what mr. alterman thinks a morass is. i submit that a "morass" is something we feel we cannot escape from. how exactly are american troops ever supposed to escape iraq without leaving chaos and hostility in their wake?
on a related noted, i've added baghdad burning to my link list. it's a blog by "riverbend," a 24 year old iraqi woman living in baghdad whose observations salam pax occasionally posted on his blog. well, now she has her own site. check it out.
