Coalition forces trained Iraqi police in Basra, who then shed their uniforms, kept their rifles, and switched sides. This may not be the complete disaster as it first appears.
Perhaps we don't give our government enough credit. Perhaps the Bush Administration, on purpose, spending billions of dollars a month to occupy Iraq precisely to train and arm militia infiltrators who then turn against the government we support. The real plan may go something like this:
First, it forces us to distrust everyone, harden our hearts, abandon coalition building, label everyone an enemy, and become better killers--just like Jesus would have wanted. Second, it feeds the cycle of violence in an oil-rich region to inflate fossil fuel prices, forcing us to explore alternative power sources. Third, and most importantly, it depletes our treasury, forcing us to tighten our belts and prepare for the day China forecloses on our country for outspending our means.
Our grandchildren will speak Mandarin and pilot carbon-neutral junks through the globally warmed waters flooding our cities to their government jobs dismantling the remaining shards of our civil liberties in their patriotic quest to ensure domestic tranquility at the expensive of liberty, justice and former American way.
We should be thanking God for telling Bush to ignore facts, science and common sense to prepare us for the future. I, for one, welcome our new overlords.
