Sunday, November 26, 2006
Victory in Deceit
CBS News reporter Lara Logan's cultivated image of tough news correspondent is apparently valued in the scripted confrontation over making Iran a scapegoat for the American failure in Iraq. Read or watch the interview with General Abizaid.
The internal melodrama between State and the Pentagon, externalized in the Times and on 60 Minutes, seems designed to prepare Americans for utter failure of our military misadventure in Iraq, as well as for bombing Iran as a form of catharsis. In the closing scene of Mesopotamia, we suspect all will be forgiven to a chorus of good intentions.
Failure, however, depends on one's point of view. If you owned stock in Chevron, Halliburton, Honeywell, or Lockheed, it was a very enterprising war.
The internal melodrama between State and the Pentagon, externalized in the Times and on 60 Minutes, seems designed to prepare Americans for utter failure of our military misadventure in Iraq, as well as for bombing Iran as a form of catharsis. In the closing scene of Mesopotamia, we suspect all will be forgiven to a chorus of good intentions.
Failure, however, depends on one's point of view. If you owned stock in Chevron, Halliburton, Honeywell, or Lockheed, it was a very enterprising war.
