Oedipus in Iraq
“We are implementing a strategy to embolden a government that is actually part of the problem,” said an American military official in Baghdad involved in talks over the plan. “We are being played like a pawn.”
This is just one devastating quote from a New York Times story that says the most telling opposition to the Bush escalation plan is in the Iraqi government that is supposed to lead it. We're in the final act of this tragedy of imperial hubris, and it's not going to be pretty.
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