March 19, 2003
I'm not a militarist---that is,
I'm not a militarist---that is, I don't know much about military deployments, and what you might call the technical details of war. So I can't verify that what the BBC reports in this article is true, but it certainly sounds plausible. In which case... what are we doing? It's bad enough that we're going to go to war, but how much worse that we might manage to bungle the job! The silver-lining part of my brain is telling me that a badly-run war might finally burst Bush's weird popularity bubble, but the rest of me cringes in horror that it might come to that.
"We cannot base our military strategy on the assumption that Saddam is
weak and at the same time justify pre-emptive action on the claim that
he is a threat." --Robin Cook
Posted
by blahedo
at 9:44am
on 19 Mar 2003
