Sick of Bush

There are many reasons to believe the war on Iraq is an evil that we will pay for in ways we can only dimmly perceive - it is unnecessary, unjust, illegal, unconstitutional, planned in secret, sold with lies, pursued with unforgivable brutality against those we claimed to help, and corrosive of every value and freedom that Americans have held dear. And there is a fundamental reality that trumps all of Bush's swagger, Cheney's contempt, and Rumsfeld's self satisfied incompetence - the very nature of the conflict itself will defeat us. This from John Robb at Global Guerrillas:

As news of the incident in Haditha filters out, it is becoming increasingly clear that Martin Van Creveld's paradox of modern warfare is in play:

In other words, he who fights against the weak - and the rag-tag Iraqi militias are very weak indeed - and loses, loses. He who fights against the weak and wins also loses. To kill an opponent who is much weaker than yourself is unnecessary and therefore cruel; to let that opponent kill you is unnecessary and therefore foolish. As Vietnam and countless other cases prove, no armed force, however rich, however powerful, however advanced, however well motivated is immune to this dilemma. The end result is always disintegration and defeat...

Such a fundamental lesson that we should have easily learned long ago - if we lived in reality rather than in the Fox News fantasy of Evildoers and Freedom on the March and defending the Sanctity of Marriage against the assault of gay-immigrant-flag burning-liberal-latte-drinkers-from-Frisco. Aren't we ready to wake up from this nightmare?