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The Headless Horseman of the Apocalypse |
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Written by Norman Solomon
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Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:10 |
by Norman Solomon
 President Bush may be a headless horseman. But the biggest problem is
what he rode in on.
Martin Luther King Jr. had a good name for it 40 years ago. “The
madness of militarism.”
We can blame Bush all we want -- and he does hold the reins right now
-- but his main enablers these days are the fastidious public
servants in Congress. They keep preparing the hay, freshening the
water, oiling the saddle, even while criticizing the inappropriately
jocular rider. And when the band plays “Hail to the Jockey,” most of the
grown-up stable boys and girls can’t help saluting.
The people who actually live in Iraq have their own opinions, of
course. UPI reported at the end of December that a new poll,
conducted by the Iraq Center for Research and Strategic Studies,
found that “about 90 percent of Iraqis feel the situation in the
country was better before the U.S.-led invasion than it is today.”
Meanwhile, according to a CNN poll last month, 11 percent of
Americans support sending more U.S. troops to Iraq. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 January 2007 04:10 )
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