Life's little Ironies: the McCain Edition
It was rather ironic that it McCain's live "Iraq Victory" speech in Los Angeles was interrupted by the MSNBC's live alert of increased violence in Iraq:
It's downright hilarious if you think about it. It forces us to talk about different factions of Iraqis and not just the ephemeral "islamofascists" or "extremists" that McCain likes to talk about. It forces us to understand that the boogeyman, the strawman, that the Republicans headed by this sinile man have been scaring us with, the al Qaeda are only 1% or 2% of all insurgents and that all these insurgent movements are different with different aims, with differing ideologies and political loyalties.
Even the very shallow analysis will turn up a few facts that Repuglicans would not want us to know: the reason Surge had seemed to be succeeding is not the miraculous formula that General Petraeus suddenly discovered. It was a combination of the Mahdi Army militias' ceasefire, the Sunni "Awakening Council" being on our payroll (your and my taxes, btw), and the virtual success of the ethnical cleansing that every Iraqi ethnic group had been engaged in.
And as soon as Mahdi Army has decided to break the ceasefire as they have seemingly done today, the improvement turned out to be as fragile as an Easter Egg under the feet of a GOP elephant.
Another irony, is that White House and Senator McCain are both supporting the Iraqi Badr Brigades and Dawa party, the two Shiite forces that are aligned with Iran, while attacking the Mahdi Army led by the firebrand cleric As-Sadr, who are fierce Iraqi nationalists and suspicious of Iran. Guess what, despite of all our anti-Iranian vitriol, we have the same goals as Iranians do in Iraq! How can we blame Iran for trying to undermine the Dawa government when it is one of the two most pro-Iranian forces in Iraqi politics???!!!
Click to viewIt's downright hilarious if you think about it. It forces us to talk about different factions of Iraqis and not just the ephemeral "islamofascists" or "extremists" that McCain likes to talk about. It forces us to understand that the boogeyman, the strawman, that the Republicans headed by this sinile man have been scaring us with, the al Qaeda are only 1% or 2% of all insurgents and that all these insurgent movements are different with different aims, with differing ideologies and political loyalties.
Even the very shallow analysis will turn up a few facts that Repuglicans would not want us to know: the reason Surge had seemed to be succeeding is not the miraculous formula that General Petraeus suddenly discovered. It was a combination of the Mahdi Army militias' ceasefire, the Sunni "Awakening Council" being on our payroll (your and my taxes, btw), and the virtual success of the ethnical cleansing that every Iraqi ethnic group had been engaged in.
And as soon as Mahdi Army has decided to break the ceasefire as they have seemingly done today, the improvement turned out to be as fragile as an Easter Egg under the feet of a GOP elephant.
Another irony, is that White House and Senator McCain are both supporting the Iraqi Badr Brigades and Dawa party, the two Shiite forces that are aligned with Iran, while attacking the Mahdi Army led by the firebrand cleric As-Sadr, who are fierce Iraqi nationalists and suspicious of Iran. Guess what, despite of all our anti-Iranian vitriol, we have the same goals as Iranians do in Iraq! How can we blame Iran for trying to undermine the Dawa government when it is one of the two most pro-Iranian forces in Iraqi politics???!!!