At first, though the regime was brutal, there was no Al-Qaeda in Iraq. Remember that. So we killed Iraqis (not bothering to count ‘em) to free them, not from oil (so our leaders said) but from Saddam Hussein, the mad cat.
Forgetting grandma’s advice about hornet’s nests, and Sir Isaac Newton’s law that says, “every action has an equal and opposite re-action” - after our liberating invasion, we planted Al-Qaeda in the people’s hatred by not turning our faces to home and marching back (while expecting thousands of Iraqi bereaved to say, “our family members have been cluster bombed, “smart” missiled, shelled or shot ... dead. But never mind, the invaders were doing us a favour, so that’s alright, no hard feelings, ‘nuff said”).
Instead, mystified by the lack of rose petals thrown at our feet, we dug in and fertilized insurgency, while our leaders, in smug and steadfast speech, said that if Al-Qaeda was busy in Iraq, they couldn’t be hurting our folks in the good old fifty states … and a good strategy was that.
But now we’re told it’s from Iraq that Al-Qaeda will attack! Slap face, slap face, slap face, slap! As history, alive and well and chorus line kicking, sings - “it’s a funny old world, our leaders are crap, and we, in our numero uno arrogance, ignorance and fear have been irresponsible and dumb. It’s been a no happy-ending, mis-adventurous rap”.
And that ... is that (as “never apologise, face saving, Eddy the testosterone abuser” said to “that’s another fine mess we’ve got our children into, Freddy Future”) … splat!
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