Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Words from the Green Zone

Vodkapundit - Sigh:
commentary by Green Zone Cafe at Vodkapundit

"'I'm in Iraq now, Green Zone Baghdad. I was listening to mortar fire yesterday afternoon. They (Sunnis? Ba'athists? someone else?) were shelling the neighborhood of one of my Iraqi co-workers, I later learned. I'm waiting for him to come into work now, he's usually very early.

Not to mention whether we have to worry how, if the shit really hits the fan here, we are going to get out. The helicopter-off-of-the-roof-of-the-embassy theme is a recurrent mordant joke here.

Of course, this is the fruit of this undermanned and underresourced war, always on the razor's edge of ruin, while Rumsfeld and Bush spout their happy horseshit. The thing is, it could have gone so much better with competent people in charge who followed the Weinberger and Powell doctrines, rather than the marginal and disorganized effort this has been from the beginning. I've always said one of the problems with this is that it is run by people whose philosophy is anti-goverment, and it is a situation where government is needed. They are not like the New Dealers who helped rebuild Europe and Japan. But hey, 'stuff happens.'"

...sometimes in large, messy quantities.

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