Yeah, this continues to floor me too. Apropos of the last thing I read on Iraq (the latest piece in The New Yorker -- which I think has been doing a superb job of covering Iraq-related news) 2 things stand out: 1) the degree to which the Iraqis are using their new "freedom" to take away the freedoms of other Iraqis (maybe not at Taliban levels yet, but it's getting really ugly), and 2) the complete unwillingness to see how opposition to us there is connected to our Sharon-can-do-whatever-he-pleases policies. That the Blackwater workers who were killed in Fallujah were killed on a street named after Sheikh Yassin says a lot.
Posted by: armand at July 4, 2004 04:52 PM | PERMALINK