Enabling Incompetence: Waiting for Godot in Iraq
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 by RLRFrom BuzzFlash
Editorial
Perhaps BuzzFlash has standards that are too high.
After all, we keep saying judgments about the Iraq War should not be considered as a political “left vs. hawk” tennis match of opinions.
As John Murtha, a hawk, best articulates, this should be a debate over competence and reality.
For the third time in recent editorials, we are pointing out today that the U.S. is closing in on embracing Vietnam as a member of the capitalist country club, by sponsoring it for the World Trade Organization. As we have pointed out, it makes you wonder how any fools — like Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush — still claim we “lost” the Vietnam War because of a lack of resolve.
With Vietnam becoming a thriving center of offshoring American production jobs — and half of Wal-Mart’s goods and billions of dollars of wages going to China — what exactly did we lose?
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