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Posted on 04/10/2003 1:32:06 PM PDT by Another Galt
We are not quite seeing the beginning of the end of our efforts, but rather, to paraphrase Churchill, the end of the beginning. Pockets of resistance remain; the north is to be pacified. The fate of Saddam is uncertain — as well as the role of Syria. An edgy Turkish general could still cause havoc. Falsehood promulgated in the Arab world must be systematically exposed and refuted. Chemical weapons must be hunted down and unearthed. The horrors of a fascistic regime will come to light, even as those who in the streets of Baghdad now praise Americans in hours will rightly demand civil order and utilities to be restored — or else.
Ruffled and cynical reporters, bored with 19th-century scenes of American arms and liberated Iraqis, will systematically start airing stories of "clumsy" collateral damage and pessimistic tales of endless terror. All this and more will tax our resources and patience — as abroad shameless enemies now profess that they are neutrals and neutrals sudden allies. Some brave Americans still may have a tragic rendezvous with death in a few more days of a dirty war whose outcome is not in doubt. Hussein's statues sometimes seem as difficult to destroy as Saddam himself — as if they are eerie reminders that civilization has not seen as macabre an enemy as the Iraqi Baathists since the SS.
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[later, the Maureen Dowd slam]:
On a minor note, I was pleased to read that Maureen Dowd yesterday criticized things that I (a.k.a. "Mr. Davis") had written as consistent with the thinking of some in the administration. I confess that her writing has long bothered me, always in times of national distress reflecting an elite superficiality that is out of touch with most of us in the America she flies over. It is not just that for the last two years she has been wrong about Afghanistan, wrong about the efficacy of the war against terror, and wrong about Iraq — despite yesterday's surprising sudden admission that "We were always going to win the war with Iraq." The problem is more a grotesque chicness that quite amorally juxtaposes mention of tidbits like alpha males, Manhattan fashion — and her own psychodramas — with themes of real tragedies like the dying in the Middle East and war's horror.
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