Taki Magazine

So we reached yet another “sober moment”: 4000 dead Americans, 90,000 dead Iraqis, four million displaced persons, 3 to 5 trillion dollars spent, and tens of thousands of our own wounded existing in living hells of their own, with damaged brains and limbs, blind, unable to perform functions like eating or going to the bathroom by themselves, things we take for granted. Things war profiteers like William Kristol and David Frum take for granted. The New York Times groans about war profiteering in Iraq, namely Blackwater. But Blackwater has put its employees on the line and Blackwater operatives risk their lives and limbs as much as the troops do. Not so with Washington war profiteers like the neocons, who continue to cash in on their high-profile jobs on FOX News, their institutes, and the New York Times itself. These vermin make Iago look honorable. They plotted and cheered for a war against a tyrant who not only had no WMDs, but also was the only one capable of keeping the peace among the myriad of factions in Iraq. The only country Saddam posed a threat to, and it was the kind of threat a pastry shop poses, was Israel; so Wolfowitz, Feith, Pipes, Abrams, Perle, the Kagans, the Podhoretzes, Kristol, Frum, Krauthammer, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest of the gang, convinced a hellfire-and-brimstone preacher of a president to go to war. If there was any justice, the profiteers and Iagos would be the first ones to pay the piper, but, alas, this is not the case. Isn’t life grand?