Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com. November 13, 2011.
Don’t let anyone say that the United States got nothing out of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Americans take home a fitting prize: Saddam's toilet.
Coffee does not make you "superhuman." The truth is that you become addicted to caffeine quickly, and soon you are drinking coffee to cure withdrawal more than for stimulation.
If we were to really leave when we promised to leave, the U.S. might have a passing shot at launching a new narrative in a Middle East already on edge over the Arab Spring.
The theater of withdrawal can't mask Iraq's rising violence and corruption, political rifts and that some 50,000, mostly combat-ready, US personnel will remain.
Sam Rosenfeld, Matthew Yglesias, The American Prospect. February 17, 2007.
'Liberal' hawks are stuck on blaming Bush's incompetent handling of the Iraq war instead of arguing that we should never have invaded in the first place.