That's All Right Then

Three years on and Iraq stubbornly refuses to Americanise. How much more do the Americans have to do to convince them that all they really want is hamburgers and Friends?

It's been the longest slow-motion train crash I have ever seen. I vaguely remember the disintegration of the Vietnam adventure when I was younger, but this has been in a class of stupidity all by itself.

It shows how disconnected from reality the Neocons are if they really thought the post-war reorganisation would look after itself. But now the policy isn't to defeat Bin Laden (no link to Iraq ever), not to bring democracy (these middle easterners keep voting for the wrong people...), not even to crush the 'insurgents', but just to stop it becoming another Vietnam.

Too late for that. But this hasn't reached Dubya yet. He's still in his own private, insulated world where it is all going to be OK, surrounded by increasingly hysterical spin doctors and driven by far right groups who actually do think it's going OK.