That's it then, for the first time since the Philippines....
Iraq is now a colony of the U.S. It used to be said that the only colony America had ever had was the Philippines in the years following the Spanish-American War. But here America is going back into the realm of the white man's burden (like a virgin into a volcano).....or perhaps rather than white man's burden, we should now call it the culturally Christian (but occasionally also Jewish, Shinto-ist, Confucian, or Hindu), G-8, corporatist man's (and woman's, i.e. Rice, Townsend, and, forgive me, Hillary) burden.
There's an old saying among American shop-owners (especially antique shop owners) that goes like this, "You break it, you own it." Well America has broken Iraq, and now America owns Iraq.
There's an old saying among American shop-owners (especially antique shop owners) that goes like this, "You break it, you own it." Well America has broken Iraq, and now America owns Iraq.
Posted at 9/12/2007 03:09:00 AM UTC
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If we were pissing off the radical Islamists before 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, we're sure doing so ten times over with this endless and mindless occupation of a Middle Eastern nation.
Such a brilliant move.
Indeed. However, the Iraq War did achieve its intended goals, i.e. to ensure re-election for Bush, to create a new class of wealthy contributors to the Republican party through defense and homeland security contracting, and to show the Chinese and Russians that the US is still willing to incur casualties and great amounts of debt in order to make a point about its own power.
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