Apologies--to genuine, honest-to-God trained monkeys, for having to put up with regular comparisons to Chimperor. Anyway, the hot story on the internets today is the debate between those who recognize that things have long since gone of the cliff re: Iraq, and those who insist that it's not...well, not quite as bad...well, it depends on how you define "war," or something like that.
And the best one I've heard from the latter group is something from Gordon Johndroe, who's surname sounds like something bestowed by the Witness Protection Program...and, who knows, maybe he'll need their help one day:
"The White House is objecting this morning to descriptions of the Iraq conflict as a civil war. National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said, 'The violence is primarily centered around Baghdad and Baghdad security and the increased training of Iraqi Security Forces is at the top of the agenda when [Bush and Maliki] meet later this week.'"
More training...yeah, that oughta work, as Bill Lind points out:
All the training in the world is worthless if the people being trained have no reason to fight for those who are training them...
That was in 2004. In the ensuing two years, things have only gotten worse...and if we don't realize that, well, the Iraqis themselves certainly do...
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