i took riverbend off the blogroll the last time i fiddled with it. i love her site, but with months going by between posts i wasn't sure if her blog was still active.
well, she's posted again today. it's actually quite heartbreaking to read. i don't agree that the wholesale destruction of iraq was the plan all along, as she suggests in her post. but i understand how an iraqi might begin to believe that it was.
i am struck by the backhanded confidence riverbend has in the intelligence of the members of the bush administration. yes, the reasons for the war and many of the decisions in the aftermath of the invasion were clearly wrong right from the start. but i think she misunderstands the depth of ignorance the bush administration has always displayed about iraq. riverbend writes "There were too many blunders for them to actually have been, simply, blunders." but the tragic thing is, that's exactly what i think they were. it's hard to get your mind around the sheer volume of bad decisions that have added up to the current situation. but that doesn't mean that they weren't mistakes to begin with.
