Posted by
Sackco on Friday, July 07, 2006 9:36:11 AM
I learned from today’s news that on a recent trip to neighboring Persian Gulf nations Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki took along his keeper, our ambassador to Baghdad Zalmay Khalilzad.
If after two years of “self-rule” we still don’t treat their elected Prime Minister with enough respect to allow him visits to neighboring heads of state on his own why don’t we just admit that democratic elections were not what we had in mind to begin with. What we apparently wanted in Iraq is a puppet government.
That’s what we’ve got, along with all that comes with it: long term commitment of our troops, growing ill will among the colonial subjects, and the same glowing future as the European colonial imperialists of yore.