An American tragedy

[Teddy_Salad]

Some 260 million Arabs and 1.5 billion followers of Islam are still asking why the US kept using - and even spruced up - Saddam Hussein's main chamber of torture while it allowed the Iraqi Museum and Baghdad's National Library - with priceless records of Mesopotamia's 6,000-year-old history - to be looted and burned. The war in Iraq is a war of images and perception. The Abu Ghraib scandal may be the endgame of US defeat, or "may be the point at which the United States lost Iraq", as University of Michigan professor and Iraq expert Juan Cole puts it. There could not be a more incendiary affront to Iraq and the Islamic world. Compared with Osama's gold offerings, this is really Radical Islam's Holy Grail. Anyone who loves the best of America cannot but be appalled at how so much imperial arrogance and incompetence has produced such an American tragedy.

Link........
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FE11Aa05.html

[Miss Authoritiva]

1. Time for a political fragging?

"The Washington Post reports that 'a profound anger is building within the army at Rumsfeld and those around him'."

[opihimoimoi]

2. If true, now they gatta get mad at the #1 Bush also for backing up Rummy

and keeping him.