July 26, 2004

• Wow... All I can do is express is my admiration for the servicemen and women who have to go through such daily horror. It's a awful shame that they are putting their lives on the line for a conflict that was sold on falsehoods. I don't know about the rest of you monkeys, but to me it feels like America is past the tipping point on the war and won't be able to turn it around. I hope not.
• As I watched this, my grade-school friend sits beside me. He got back from Iraq about 2 weeks ago. His response was, "Yup. That's it right there."
• that was, umm... tense. Does anyone know what the background was or who the guys in the suv's were?
• And yet (I think) we can't just leave. It doesn't appear that the Iraqi forces are ready to stop the horrors that are being inflicted on them by their internal an external militants . On the other hand, will democracy fail in Iraq? If it does, will that be a bad thing? Many of the Middle Eastern blogs I read are very happy that we're there and look forward to democracy, but others really long for the old days when electricity was dependable, and food was provided by Saddam's government, and who dread the onset of capitalism. And, of course, all those blogs are manned by people who can afford the expense. It's hard to tell what the general population thinks, though the polls indicate they're not happy with our presence. Tiger by the tail!