LETTER: Purveyors of American failure
I see the news media, left and right, are trotting out the architects of failure, the Bill Kristols, the Paul Wolfowitzes, the Dick Cheneys, and are asking them to pontificate on what the U.S. should do now that President George W. Bush’s legacy of failure in the useless invasion of Iraq has turned into a hotbed of Islamic sectarian violence.
Why on earth would anyone listen to these purveyors of American failure ever again? Bush had his military surge, he temporarily bought off the Sunnis in western Iraq, and Shia cleric Muqtada al Sadr, playing the long game, told his militias to stand down, which tamped down the violence.
Escalating violence occurring after the inability of the Bush and Obama administrations to obtain a Status of Forces Agreement with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shia aligned with Iran, along with his marginalizing of the minority Sunnis should come as no surprise to anyone once the U.S. bribery scheme that kept the Sunnis involved ended.
What now? I don’t know about you, but I say no more of my tax money should be poured into the rathole of the Bush crusade for the oil companies. And no more advice from the architects of failure.
ROY LEHMAN
The Leaders of Babylon the Great
I see the news media, left and right, are trotting out the architects of failure, the Bill Kristols, the Paul Wolfowitzes, the Dick Cheneys, and are asking them to pontificate on what the U.S. should do now that President George W. Bush’s legacy of failure in the useless invasion of Iraq has turned into a hotbed of Islamic sectarian violence.
Why on earth would anyone listen to these purveyors of American failure ever again? Bush had his military surge, he temporarily bought off the Sunnis in western Iraq, and Shia cleric Muqtada al Sadr, playing the long game, told his militias to stand down, which tamped down the violence.
Escalating violence occurring after the inability of the Bush and Obama administrations to obtain a Status of Forces Agreement with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shia aligned with Iran, along with his marginalizing of the minority Sunnis should come as no surprise to anyone once the U.S. bribery scheme that kept the Sunnis involved ended.
What now? I don’t know about you, but I say no more of my tax money should be poured into the rathole of the Bush crusade for the oil companies. And no more advice from the architects of failure.
ROY LEHMAN
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