Quote of the Day
Posted by Justin Raimondo on March 20, 2008
Quote of the day comes from Matt Yglesias, over at The Atlantic blog:
“If your goal is an enduring American military presence in Iraq, you need political dysfunction. If Iraq were to emerge as a stable country with a government responsive to its citizens’ wishes, they’d tell the Americans to take a hike. It’s sectarian tensions and instability that make the continued, unpopular presence of a huge number of American boots on the ground viable.”
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Bribing and arming all three sides in the conflict accomplishes that nicely.
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I think the quote of the month should go to Justin, who predicted weeks ago that the neocons were going to smear Obama as a racist. Once again, right on the money Raimondo. I wish you weren’t right so often.
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Raimondo,
Yglesia is dead wrong when he says:
“It is the sectarian tension and instability that make the continued, unpopular presence of a huge number of American boots on the ground viable”
It is precisely, as Joe Allen points out, that the very presence of those ‘boots’ that have caused the sectarian strife.
How soon did we forget that our chief advisor in Iraq was Israel,(’knows Arab mentality’). Without anybody noticing it, we have applied in Iraq, not the ‘Salvador method’, as we were told, but the Lebanon model where Israel was reigning supreme for years.
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