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Entry: "We're Making Progress in Iraq"--Towards What? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/were_making_progress_in_iraq_towards_what#23175 Post contents: This is a very good analysis of the conceptual and language problem underlying the entire Iraq adventure. The neo-cons are adamant in proving the Law of Unintended Consequences over and over and over and over again. It's all so sad and Orwellian. Defeat is victory. Victory is defeat. War is peace. Doubleplusungood. Knock down the rise in the carpet, creating new rise in carpet. Knock down the rise in the carpet, creating new rise in carpet. Rinse, repeat. I'm about to ruin your squirrel thesis by beating it into the ground, but I can't help myself. Ideologues are dangerous. If your entire understanding of reality presumes that squirrels (1) are inherently good and their One True Goal is to line up in a circle; (2) by lining them up in that circle, you will prevent some rogue squirrels from killing you; (3) the only way to prevent being killed is to take it upon yourself to line them up, no matter what everyone else thinks about this enterprise, then the consequences should come as no surprise. They'll either line up or they'll die. And the neighbors will either buzz off or they'll die. And any damage to ourselves, the squirrels, the park or the neighbors, was worth it. Sent at: 2008 11 23