6/25 From Matt Taibibibib
Q: How long will it take for the Democrat hopefuls to realize that they\
cannot simply pull out of Iraq?
A: I saw an old episode of “Homicide: Life on the Street” on\
the Sleuth channel the other night. In it a highly annoying Vince D’\
Onofrio falls between a subway car and the subway platform and he gets
stuck there, with the train basically holding his guts in. The
medics come in and they look at him and realize that if they move
the train at all, his guts are going to fall out and he’s going to
die. But if they do nothing, he’s going to slowly lose blood
pressure and die. Either way, he’s going to die. Iraq is
Vince D’Onofrio. It doesn’t overact as much, but it’s just as
fucked. The bloodbath is coming as soon as we leave, whether thatâ€â„\
˘s now or 20 years from now. But I’d be interested to hear your
argument explaining how things are going to improve by
us staying and spending a billion bucks a day or whatever playing
Play Station in air conditioned trailers behind twenty-foot walls
while Iraqis have six hours of electricity and pee into buckets and
get their throats slit as soon as night falls. You’re probably
right, a few more years of that, and this Sunni-Shia hatred
thing will pass. |