Sunday, November 05, 2006
Arianna Huffington thinks I'm crazy! (or a terrorist)
Stumbled on this* this morning from Arianna Huffington:
"Let's just stipulate that everyone in America not in a straight jacket or part of a terrorist sleeper cell wants America to "win" -- and center the debate on what, exactly, the president and the GOP mean by victory."No, Arianna, I, and a hell of a lot of other Americans (arguably, a majority) just want the U.S. and its allies to get the hell out of Iraq, now, and don't look back (except for writing a check for the damages). We don't want the U.S. to "win," not by any conceivable definition. We want the Iraqi people to win by getting their country back, and then doing their best to fix the almost incalculable damage caused by the American invasion (not to mention the years of sanctions and bombing which preceded the invasion).
And there's nothing whatsoever crazy about that.
As for being part of a "sleeper" cell, I'm afraid I, and the tens of thousands of people who regularly demonstrate in the streets against the U.S. occupation, are a bit too "out" for that.
* The full link to this article is http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/rosie-david-and-wolf-w_b_32927.html; for some reason Blogger seems to be hiccuping on that. Perhaps it's too long.
