Concern :: 2007 :: September

I liked this movie. It gives a convincing argument on why the current Iraq occupation is a nearly complete failure, and one that will cost the United States dearly in the world economies of capitol and credibility.

I mean, it really seems like every decision made by someone important in the occupation was designed to be the worst possible thing that could be done. People are starting to loot — let’s not enforce any law, and give the impression that lawlessness will go unchallenged. People are starting to loot and destroy core infrastructure and important sites of national history — let’s still not intervene, and let the entire country deal without basic administrative infrastructure and without any sense of history, art, or pride. We’ll need to start up civil services again — let’s fire everyone who knew these jobs before, let them know that because of their political party before the invasion that they can never hold a position of importance in this country again, and then let’s hire US trust-fund babies fresh out of ivy-league colleges to handle the infrastructure to support millions of Iraqis. We really need a strong military presence to keep the peace — lets disband the entire national military, and leave jobless thousands of angry, combat-trained people who know the locations of all the currently under-guarded weapons caches in the country.

And we’re surprised the situation fell apart as thoroughly as it has?