Tom and Daisy in Iraq
Timothy Garton Ash is an insightful writer, one of my favorites. He’s written a number of books about the fall of communism in the former Warsaw Pact, something he experienced directly. He’s closely followed developments there and knows how things worked there in the aftermath of the fall of the repressive regimes there. So when he says that America is starting to lose the peace in Iraq, I pay attention:
An American general moves in as viceroy, with clumsy Reader’s Digest rhetoric about the honour of being at ancient Ur. Incredibly, a former head of the CIA is proposed as information minister, to supplant the incredible Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf. (One comic turn succeeds another?) I currently see all the tact of a bull in a china shop; but I hope to be proved wrong.
Posted at 5:26 PM